June 12, 2024 • 42 mins
What drives us to eat when we aren't truly hungry? Explore the fascinating interplay between hunger, appetite, and fullness on this episode of the SoulFuel podcast with Pastor Willie Robbins III. We unravel the intricate dance between the stomach and brain, revealing how external stimuli like the sight and smell of food can manipulate our desires. Understand the powerful influence of appetite, compelling us to eat more even after we're satiated or leaving us uninterested in food when we're stressed or unwell.
Gain deeper insight into the natural sensations of hunger and fullness, influenced by our hypothalamus, blood sugar, and hormones. Through personal stories, including Pastor Willie's recent cruise experience, we paint a vivid picture of how fullness can sometimes be overridden by a persistent appetite. Discover the physiological signals that communicate satiety and how they sometimes evoke a strong aversion to further eating. This episode is a comprehensive exploration of how our eating behaviors are shaped, providing valuable knowledge to help manage your appetite and maintain balance in your daily life.
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Sometimes they don't get hungry until they see me
with something or they see theirmom with something.
Sometimes they don't even havea taste for food, but because
this is even when they're nothungry, you just ate.
What do you want with mypopcorn?
Well, just because they're nothungry doesn't mean they don't
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have an appetite.
What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to the SoulFuel podcast, the place for your soul to get
fueled up for your journey inlife with Christ.
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Listen, I'm your host, willieRobbins III, with Christ.
Listen, I'm your host, willieRobbins III, also known as
Pastor Will.
I am so delighted, I'm soexcited to have you with me on
another episode.
Listen, first of all, let meapologize y'all.
I am putting this episode outafter the time that it's
supposed to come out, which isMondays at midnight, midnight,
early Monday morning, right, andso I don't want you to get used
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to these late drops.
But anyways, with that beingsaid, let's get into today's
episode.
I want you to think about thetime that you're listening to
this.
I want you to also think aboutyour stomach.
I want you to think am I hungryor am I not hungry, right, like
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?
I really want you to stop andthink about that.
For some of you that arelistening to this.
You might be stuffing your faceright now no judgment, because
I'm actually hungry right nowand recording this episode, but
it's all good.
You got to be aware of yourhunger.
You have to be aware of yourlevel of hunger.
There's no doubting the factthat we all get hungry.
We have moments where we arehungry, right.
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But at the same time, there'ssomething else that is on the
underlying surface of hunger.
Once you have understood thefact that your stomach has
connected to your brain, or senta signal to your brain letting
you know that it's hungry, thenthere's a thing called appetite.
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Right, there's a thing calledappetite.
And this only comes after wehave understood and noticed the
fact that we are hungry.
Your stomach is like hey bro,it's time to eat out.
And so now you have to decidewhat do I feel like eating?
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That's the question.
What do I feel like eating?
And even if I don't feel likeeating, and even if I don't feel
like eating, I know I have toeat because my stomach is saying
that I'm hungry.
So it's a fact.
And if I do not eat, there arecertain things that will happen
to me in the process, and someof y'all know how you, you, you,
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you, you suffer from umhangriness, right.
When you are hungry and youdon't eat, you get angry, you
get upset, you get whiny I mean,you turn into a kid again,
right, you're irritable.
There's different things thatcome from not feeding the hunger
, right, and then even sometimesyou struggle with knowing what
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the appetite is because you'reso hungry and sometimes the
attitude gets in the way and youcan't really articulate what
you need to be articulatingbecause you're so hungry.
But I want to point to thesedefinitions and I want you to
write this down or, in fact, goto the website, because I'm
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quoting these things off ofmyhealthalbertaca.
Right, and this was interestingas I was researching this topic
.
The overview says to listen toyour body to tell you when
you're hungry or full.
Listen to your body to tell youwhen you are hungry or fool.
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Now I'm going to go out oforder.
Since I was talking aboutappetite, I want to look at the
definition of appetite.
The word appetite is, it meansa desire for food.
Usually after seeing, smellingor thinking about food, even
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after you feel full, yourappetite can make you keep
eating.
That's crazy.
Did you hear that After you arereally full, your appetite can
make you keep eating.
It can also stop you fromeating even though you are
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hungry.
This might happen when you aresick or feeling stress.
I don't know about y'all, buthave you ever not the stress
feeling?
But it's not even.
I don't even think it's justsick.
I've been there where I've beensick and I didn't want certain
things and when I actually whenI was sick, I had a specific
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appetite, like I had like ataste for some hot wings.
I want some pizza, probably thestuff I didn't eat.
But I still had that appetitewhen my body was in a certain
condition.
So this is interesting, thatthe takeaway from this
definition is that even afteryou feel full, your appetite can
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make you keep eating.
Not to mention let's go back tothe first part of this
definition is that appetite is adesire for food, usually after
seeing, smelling or thinkingabout food.
So this reminds me of my kids,um, as they are all currently
still growing up.
They're all small, except forthe oldest, but sometimes
they're.
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They don't get hungry untilthey see me with something or
they see their mom withsomething.
Sometimes they don't even havea taste for food, but because
even and it's.
This is even when they're nothungry.
You just ate.
What do you want with mypopcorn?
Well, just because they're nothungry doesn't mean they don't
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have an appetite.
Oh, this is good we gettinginto the meat and potatoes early
.
Just because you're not hungrydoesn't mean you don't have an
appetite.
And appetites are dangerous.
Appetites are dangerous.
This is one of the reasons whyyou go to a restaurant and they
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ask you if you want to getstarted with any appetizers
today, because the appetizer isthe pregame for the, for the
full course, for the main course.
Right, the main course is theentree, the, the, the meatloaf,
for, uh, the chicken or thesalmon with the rice and all
these things, and then thedessert comes after.
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Right, you have all of thesethings.
But watch this regardless ofyour level of hunger, you're
still gonna have an appetite.
So appetite is a desire forfood, usually after seeing,
smelling or thinking about food.
It's a desire for food, usuallyafter seeing, smelling or
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thinking about food, even afteryou feel full, your appetite can
make you keep eating.
It can also stop you fromeating, even though you are
hungry.
This is powerful.
Even though you are hungry,this is powerful, I believe,
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since we're about almost 10minutes into this episode, you
already know where this is going.
But let me continue, because wesaid that even though you're
hungry, even though you'rehungry, it doesn't mean that you
do not have an appetite.
In other words, appetite isalways working, regardless of
how hungry you are.
So let's look at the wordhunger.
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Hunger is a normal sensationthat makes you want to eat.
Your body tells your brain thatyour stomach is empty eat.
Your body tells your brain thatyour stomach is empty.
Your body tells your brain thatyour stomach is empty.
This makes your stomach growland gives you hunger pangs.
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Hunger makes some people feellightheaded or mean, irritated,
grouchy.
Everyone is different, right,but we know that there is a bad
side effect of not obeyinghunger right in the natural.
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There is a negative side effectof not obeying your hunger
Because it's a normal sensation.
The human mind, body and soulhas a normal sensation that
makes us want to eat.
Our body tells our brain thatour stomach is empty.
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This makes our stomach growland gives us hunger pangs.
Hunger makes people feeldifferent ways, but either way,
it's not a cool feeling, likenobody goes hungry, like
willingly, other than whenyou're fasting right, like
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willingly, other than whenyou're fasting.
Right, and again, not to getinto fasting, but your appetite
has to be different.
Even in fasting, the fleshappetite is always working
against the spirit's appetite,but I don't want to get too far
ahead of myself.
So hunger is partly controlled,right, hunger is partly
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controlled by a part of ourbrain called the hypothalamus
your brain, your blood sugar,glucose level, how empty your
stomach and intestines are, andcertain hormone levels in your
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body.
Hunger is partly controlled bya part of your brain called the
hypothalamus your blood sugar,glucose level and how empty your
stomach and intestines are, andcertain hormones hormone levels
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in your body, right.
So again, this is a normalsensation.
This is what makes us want toeat.
This is what makes us want toeat.
If we eat or if we do not eat,we automatically have a.
What?
An appetite?
Right, we automatically have anappetite.
Now, what about?
Because appetite, then?
The definition of appetite saysthat appetite after, even after
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we feel full appetite, can makeus keep eating.
It can also stop us from eating, even though we are hungry, all
right.
So your appetite shifts, andthere are two different sides to
this, and we'll.
We'll get to that in just asecond.
But let's go to fullness.
What does it mean to be full?
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Fullness is a feeling of beingsatisfied.
Your stomach tells your brainthat it is full.
This is interesting, isn't thatamazing, how the stomach talks
to the brain like you can feelit.
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Have you ever felt full but youwere still hungry to continue
eating?
This just recently happened tome when I was on a cruise,
probably last month, two monthsago now.
When I was on a cruise probablylast month, two months ago now,
I don't know, it was this yearand I felt so full, but yet I
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was still hungry.
I still had an appetite,because some of the things that
I was eating it was veryspecific.
I wasn't eating like eggs anddifferent things like that.
I was eating like the sugarstuff or the sugar-free stuff.
I was eating this kind of stuff, but I realized, okay, I'm full
, there is nothing healthy aboutthis situation.
So I was doing all that I couldto try to relieve my stomach.
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Y'all know what I'm talkingabout.
I was trying to do whatever itis that I needed to do, but I
couldn't do it.
I couldn't do it like my, my,my body was not functioning
properly, but I knew I couldn'tkeep on eating because I fell
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full right.
So normally this feeling causesus to stop eating and not think
about food again for severalhours.
Fullness is partly controlledby the hypothalamus, blood sugar
and having food in our stomachand intestines.
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Let me say this again Fullnessis a feeling of being satisfied.
It's a feeling of beingsatisfied.
Your stomach tells your brainthat it is full.
Normally, this feeling causesus to stop eating and not even
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think about food for severalhours.
Have you ever been full andlooked at somebody else's food
and felt like you were gettingready to throw up?
Why?
Because of the appetite.
Your appetite is turned off,because you are full Now, but
your appetite shifts in anotherway and you have an appetite to
not eat.
Are you understanding wherethis is going?
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I pray that y'all are really,really, really picking up what
the Holy Spirit is putting downright now, because this is rich,
all right.
Fullness is a feeling of beingsatisfied.
Your stomach tells your brainthat it is full.
Your stomach is always going totell your brain something.
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Your stomach is connected toyour what your flesh, your
stomach is considered flesh.
Stomach is always going todesire something and it's going
to tell your brain going todesire something and it's going
to tell your brain.
And then you have the momentbetween, uh uh, your thought
process, your, your thoughts,the, the, the will, your will,
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in between thoughts and stomach,in between.
That is decision.
Oh man, let me say that againyour will is in the middle
between stomach, which is flesh,thought, which is spirit, and
you have to make a decision.
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That is where you are.
And, as we're getting ready totalk more spiritual, I want you
to understand the natural,because this is how we work.
Naturally, everybody, like it,does it doesn't.
It doesn't matter where youcome from, it doesn't matter
what you believe in.
The fact remains here's if wewant to talk about science, we
want to.
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We want to believe in science.
I believe what they studiedabout the body, and it's amazing
because God made this body thatwe live in, and so, quite
naturally, whatever is happeningin the body, in the natural,
it's also true for the spirit.
It can be true for the spirit,right?
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So fullness is this feelingthat causes us to stop eating
and not think about food againfor several hours.
So, again, when we look atother people's food, you look at
somebody else eating and youjust ate a full meal and then
you watch one of these videos orone of these social media
people uh, like I mean globs offood on their plates and I mean
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food plates from seafoodrestaurants and all these other
places and they talking aboutand they eating and slurping and
licking fingers and doing allthis like stuff.
Watch this.
It almost becomes nasty.
When you are full and you watchsomebody else eat a full plate
of food, you'll see somebodyelse full plate of food.
I got to go.
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It's time to go because you aredone.
Your appetite is telling you Iwant to sleep.
You have a different appetitefor different things, different,
a different type of appetite.
It's not even related to food.
It don't even have to be foodrelated.
Now it becomes more, uh,thought-based and and
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feeling-based, emotion-based,right.
So it's important that weunderstand that the fullness, uh
, this feeling of fullness, ispartly controlled by the
hypothalamus, our blood sugarand having food in our stomach
and intestines.
They said at the very beginningof this I read what they wrote
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and they said listen to yourbody to tell you when you are
hungry or full.
Listen to your body to tell youwhen you are hungry or full.
Listen to your body to tell youwhen you are hungry or full Now
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, when you are living this lifein Christ and going about your
everyday business.
This is not true for you Now.
We do this by nature.
We already know this.
By nature, when we're hungry,we go and get something to eat
in the natural.
But I really want you tounderstand and take hold of this
and grab this entire concept ofall these three things of
hunger, fullness and appetite.
I want you to grab these threethings and think about them in
the spirit, think about them inyour spiritual walk.
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While you're living this lifein Christ, right, while we are
faced with certain temptations,when we are going through these
different trials, right, we knowthat the testing, the testing
of our faith, is workingpatience.
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Patience is is supposed to haveher perfect work.
Patience is supposed to doeverything that is that, that
that it's supposed to do,because that's what we need as
we go through this life inChrist.
But I want you to understandthat you cannot listen to your
body to tell you when you arehungry or full.
You have to listen to the HolySpirit, because the Holy Spirit
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is always going to let you knowthat you are hungry.
It's going to speak to theappetite.
The Holy Spirit gives you theappetite that you need, as long
as you're willing to lean on theSpirit and not lean onto what
your stomach is telling you,what your flesh is telling you.
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Your flesh will tell you I needto get this money.
Your stomach may be saying I'mhungry, I'm broke, I need money.
I need to get it like this, Ineed to get it like this, I need
to get it like that.
All of the people, all of thedope boys, all of everybody
who's ever sold drugs in theirlife, they have told themselves
this because their stomach,which is their flesh, the flesh
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has spoken to them in theirhunger, in the condition of
their, in what their mindset is,in that they are hungry and
that they need to do somethingabout the hunger.
And they're never full, evenwhen they've made enough.
This is why a lot of drugdealers get caught.
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Not condoning drug dealing atall is completely wrong, but a
lot of people get caught whenthey don't have the mind to quit
because what?
They're full and just becausethey had an appetite for this
thing.
Again, remember, appetite canmake you keep eating when you
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are full.
When their pockets got full,they continue to sell, they
continue to sling because theappetite came from the wrong
spirit, the wrong desire.
They fed a hunger that that wasfed in the wrong way.
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If you are hurting for money,my friend, go get a job.
Put in work, work overtime.
You not making enough money onthat job.
Listen, go to a communitycollege or take a workshop.
Acquire new skillsire newskills, skill up, bring value to
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what you already know how to do, and apply for higher paying
jobs.
This is, this is the way aroundit.
And even, and even in themiddle of that, you're
acknowledging God in all of yourways and he's directing your
path and he's the one that opensup doors that no man can close.
But when you go out trying tofulfill a hunger of the stomach,
you're always going to run intothings that are no good for you
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.
Sin is a food that is no goodfor you.
It's no good for you, and wealready know that those who are
born of God should not, will not, commit sin.
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This has been like a strongtopic on all of my platforms
lately, because there's a lot ofpeople that seem to think that
you're going to do it.
But that's not how we live ourlife.
We don't live our life thinkingwe're going to do anything.
We live our life, a life that'spleasing to God by faith,
because without faith it isimpossible to please him.
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So what happens when you giveyour life to Christ?
There's an appetite change.
My appetite for the world isgoing to automatically cause me
to obey my hunger and I'm goingto overeat.
I'm going to do things thatthat are not conducive to my
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salvation.
I'm not going to do things IfI'm in sin.
I'm obeying my stomach until Iam full and then, when I have
depleted the nutrition that Ithought was good for me, when we
have depleted, when that wastehas gone out, when that waste
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has gone out, we continue toconsume it again because we love
bad eating habits and we knowwhat bad eating habits do.
We already know that eating toomuch or too little of certain
foods and nutrition can raisethe risk of dying of heart
disease, stroke and type 2diabetes.
More than that, obesity and theincreased certain risk and
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increased certain risk factorsfor stroke, heart disease and
cancer disease and cancer.
When you eat too much of theworld, when you are eating sin,
consuming sin by living in sinin your everyday life and call
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yourself a believer, first ofall, you're disconnected, and it
proves that you have beenskipping meals.
And when we skip meals, we gothrough these hunger pains.
And these hunger pains is theHoly Spirit calling out to us to
let us know hey, you're missingthe bread.
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You didn't have your breadtoday.
This is why when we this is whyPaul said, I die daily, we have
to constantly kill away theflesh.
We have to constantly wake upsurrender.
We have to constantly be, uh,doing things on purpose, calling
on the name of the Lord,because he's the only way.
He's the only way, he's theonly way, he's the only way,
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he's the only way that we canmake it.
He's the only way that we canmake it.
This is why we have to beconsistent in the word of God.
You got to be consistent in theword of God because if you're
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not, then your appetite screamssin.
You have an appetite for all ofthe things that we don't need,
because we're trying to be fullof those things that we should
not be full of.
I hope that makes sense.
Did that make sense?
We should not be full of thethings that we don't need.
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Again, these bad eating habits.
Bad eating habits are sinfulpractices or practices that can
lead to sin.
And again, when you skip meals,it can affect your mood.
When we don't eat, we feel thesymptoms such as dizziness,
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irritation, and watch this.
When we skip a meal, it makesus more prone to overeat at our
next meal or increase cravingsfor anything.
Huh, I hope I'm saying thiseffectively.
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I hope I'm saying thiseffectively because, again, when
we skip out on meals, it makesus more prone to overeat at our
next meal.
And here's what I mean by this,because this is a fact in the
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natural.
But what I'm pointing out toyou is that when we skip reading
the word of God, when we skipreading the word of God, when we
skip taking in scripture likewe should, it increases our
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cravings for the world.
It increases our cravings forthings that are not of God In
the natural.
When it says, this is talkingabout talking about food, is
talking about the human stomachor the human experience.
Eat at our next meal orincrease cravings for anything,
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such as high fat foods and highsugar foods, because we feel so
hungry.
Because you feel so hungry, youknow it's real easy to overeat.
You skip a meal and then youbecome more hungry and then at
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the next opportunity to eat.
So here's the thing your nextopportunity to eat.
What are you eating?
Is it the word of God?
Or are you consuming the highfatty food and high sugar diet
snacks and filth of words thatare not of God?
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Are you?
Are you consuming, uh, real,sweet, sugar-coated words of of
wisdom?
Sweet, sugar-coated, uh gospel.
Is this what you are consuming?
Are you consuming the world?
Because?
Is this what you are consuming?
Are you consuming the world?
Because this is what causes youto be obese in the spirit.
How do you be obese in thespirit?
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Well, you become obese when youbecome obese in the spirit, and
this means that you get too bigfor the word of God.
This means you get too big forknowledge and wisdom and
understanding from the most highgod.
You get too big.
You're not only on a high horse, you're in the sky.
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You're high.
You're too high to come in low,because we know that the lord
resists the proud and he exaltsthe humble.
And when you have builtyourself up on on high fat and
high sugar foods because youwere so hungry, that is what
your appetite, your appetite wasto obey your stomach, which is
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your flesh.
Please, again, I hope you'reconnecting these things.
I'm bringing spiritual thingsparallel with the flesh so that
you can understand.
And you have to know that again, when you fail to take in the
word of God, when you fail totake in the scriptures, it is
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easier for temptation to haveits way with you.
And temptation does not have towin.
I tell people this all the timeTempt, temptation does not have
to win.
I tell people this all the time.
Temptation does not have to win.
It may look good, it may soundgood, it may even feel good,
based on what it sounds like andthe feel.
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And and when I say feel goodbased on what you've experienced
in the past when you did thesethings in the past, your memory,
your memory starts moving andyou start going back into the
things of old, you startconsidering the things of old
and you forget about the newself, you forget about the new
you and the devil successfullyresuscitates you, your, your
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flesh, he resuscitates the ou,he does cpr on the ou again.
And between your thought,between your thoughts, which is
of the spirit, which is wherethe spirit speaks, and your
stomach, which is what the devilspeaks to, you have to make the
decision.
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Am I going to choose what thespirit wants and what the lord
wants for me.
What is the righteous thing todo, or am I going to choose what
the spirit wants and what theLord wants for me?
What is the righteous thing todo, or am I going to choose what
the stomach wants?
Am I going to choose what theflesh wants?
James, chapter 1, verse 13 and14 one of my favorite verses,
and I'm gonna read this from theCSB.
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It says no one undergoing atrial should say I am being
tempted by God, because weunderstand that temptation is
not of God.
Temptation is automaticallygoing to come to scream at the
flesh and provoke the flesh.
This is all what temptationdoes.
Temptation provokes the flesh.
So let no one say that I ambeing tempted by God, since God
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is not tempted by evil and hehimself doesn't tempt anyone.
But each person is tempted whenhe is drawn away and enticed by
his own evil desires.
Didn't say desires, says evildesires, whatever is not of God,
whatever is not of God.
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When you're enticed, whenyou're entertained, when you are
amused and enjoy what you knowis not good for you.
That is how temptation issuccessful.
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When you've allowed temptationto provoke you to action, when
the thought watch this always athought of the holy spirit is
always going to come to bringyou the word of god, tell you no
.
Sometimes the holy spirit willsay no, no, get out, get out,
get out.
And it's so pressing, but theflesh is also pressing as well.
But what is what is what isbetter for you?
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Let me answer that for you, theSpirit, the Holy Spirit, the
Holy Spirit knows what's best,because the Holy Spirit is from
God.
The Lord doesn't tempt us to doevil y'all.
We are tempted because of ourown sinful nature.
This is why we, we die daily,because the flesh is imperfect,
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and that's what makes us notperfect in the flesh.
That is what makes us uh, uh,uh, we are.
We are unavailable to sin bychoice, but it doesn't make us
be in a state to where we arecompletely like, where we're not
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tempted.
We will be tempted on everyside, right, and it's only a
temptation, because we are drawnaway by our own evil desires.
But here's the thing thank godfor the one who delivered us
from this death of sin, jesus,and then gave us the power of
the holy spirit so that we canovercome the sinful nature.
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Right, the flesh isautomatically sinful hands down,
and I've always said this.
This is a a reminder.
This text uh, james, one is isa great reminder to stay on
guard in our battle againsttemptation.
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It's easy to, it's easy to passit.
All we got to do is just say no.
Somebody offered you acigarette, you don't smoke.
You say no, right, you're nottempted, because that's not what
you desire.
So, as you go on to follow thelord, it doesn't mean that you
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won't ever be tempted as youmove forward.
It just means that you won'tobey the appetite and it's
easier for you to say no.
That's, that's how we move whenit comes to loving the Lord and
living in the spirit, becauseit doesn't matter how long we've
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been believers, we're stillsusceptible to temptation.
We're still susceptible totemptation, and I've always said
this, and this is I don't likewhen people try to use Peter,
they say Peter denied him threetimes during one dark night.
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Peter was not immune totemptation, and neither are
Christians today.
That's what some say right, butI differ here, because Peter
was not full of the Holy Ghostwhen he denied Christ three
times.
He did what he was going to dobecause he was afraid, although
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they believed, they didn't havethe Holy Spirit.
So what does that mean?
If Peter had the Holy Spiritwhile he, if Peter had watch
this, they went through the samethings that Jesus went through
with the Holy Spirit and hewasn't afraid and he didn't deny
Christ.
And he wasn't afraid and hedidn't deny Christ.
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And there was no sin other thanthe sin of partiality that
Peter showed and Paul had torebuke him.
That was it, the sin ofpartiality.
He got up from the table whilehe was sitting with Gentiles and
Paul had to rebuke him.
He called him out on it becausethe Pharisees came and he was
like, oh, I can't be seensitting with y'all, but that was
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about it, and we know thatthere was some.
There was where Paul andsomeone else had a dispute and
they didn't agree on everything.
They didn't agree on something,so they went their way.
Was it sinful?
I don't think so.
It's not illegal or it's not asin for you to have a
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disagreement.
It's how you handle thedisagreement right.
So we need to understand Luke 4and 13 that I've quoted before
many times as we're coming tothe close of this episode.
It says ESV version says andwhen the devil had ended every
temptation.
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He departed from him until anopportune time.
And he's talking about Jesushere.
Right, jesus is tempted by thedevil.
Right, jesus is tempted by thedevil.
And so Jesus successfullypassed passes, temptation or
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test, while the devil is tryingto tempt the Lord.
He says it is written thoushalt not tempt the Lord, that
God.
And he tells him to bow beforehim and all this stuff.
And then Jesus tells him getbehind me, satan.
And then he flees.
Right, and this is interesting,that it says he departed from
him.
Luke 4, 13 says he departedfrom him until an opportune time
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, and another version would sayuntil.
It says until, basically, hecomes.
He just he comes in seasons.
He's waiting for a particulartime to come, he's waiting for a
particular moment to come back.
So there you have it.
It's never meant for the devilto just completely leave you
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alone.
It's not true as a believer.
No, the devil is always goingto be after you.
There's going to be seasonswhere it feels as if it's easy,
where the devil ain't botheringyou.
But he is.
But it's just that you got yourmind.
That's why your mind has toalways be in him, because if
it's in him, then you're goingto be all right If it's in him.
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You're going to be all right.
Right, if you won't even reallynotice what the devil I mean.
You'll notice what the devil isdoing, you'll know that the
enemy is busy, but there's noneed to call him out.
We just need to call on jesus.
Right, because your appetite,when you call on jesus, your
appetite will stay intact, yourappetite will remain where it is
supposed to be.
Right and watch this.
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The devil does this in thebeginning of Jesus's ministry,
that he is tempted by the devil,but he was able to resist him
because the Lord Jesus wassubmitted to the Father and
because he was submitted to theFather.
I want you to see that andunderstand the fact that Jesus
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was submitted.
When we go to the book of Jamesright James chapter one, the
James chapter one of four Jamessays I believe it's chapter four
.
James says I believe it'schapter four.
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He says submit yourself to God,resist the devil.
This is not saying he mightflee from you.
It says he will flee from you.
And then verse eight says drawnear to God and he will draw
near to you.
Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts.
You double-minded, you of twominds.
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Again.
This tells us that we can'thave two minds.
We have to stay submitted toGod, drawing near to him.
Right, this is how we obey theappetite of the Holy Spirit,
because the Holy Spirit is thespirit that was in Jesus and we
know that it all comes from God.
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It's God the Father, god theSon and God the Holy Ghost.
These three are one becausethey agree.
And when Jesus ascended, hegave the Holy Ghost to the
church, fell upon all men, holyGhost.
He gave the Holy Ghost to thechurch, fell upon all men.
He pours out his spirit uponall flesh so that you have the
ability to operate and walk evenas he walked.
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So what's your appetite beenlately?
What has your appetite beenlately?
Has it been for the word of God?
Has your hunger been for theworld or has it been for the
word?
I'm even asking myself thisquestion daily.
What is my appetite for real?
What is my appetite All right?
So, as you continue, I want youto ask yourself this question.
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And if it is that your stomachis empty, you need to get to
reading, you need to get tostudying, you need to get to
praying.
You need to keep doing all ofthese things every day.
All right, listen.
God bless each and every one ofyou that have listened to this
episode.
I hope that it has been ablessing to you as it has been a
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blessing to me.
This is the conclusion of thisepisode.
Why do I always do this and Ialways forget the other segment?
They have to be stopped.
You got an idea?
Sometimes they don't get hungry until they see me
with something or they see theirmom with something.
Sometimes they don't even havea taste for food, but because
this is even when they're nothungry, you just ate.
What do you want with mypopcorn?
Well, just because they're nothungry doesn't mean they don't
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have an appetite.
What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to the SoulFuel podcast, the place for your soul to get
fueled up for your journey inlife with Christ.
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Listen, I'm your host, willieRobbins III, with Christ.
Listen, I'm your host, willieRobbins III, also known as
Pastor Will.
I am so delighted, I'm soexcited to have you with me on
another episode.
Listen, first of all, let meapologize y'all.
I am putting this episode outafter the time that it's
supposed to come out, which isMondays at midnight, midnight,
early Monday morning, right, andso I don't want you to get used
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to these late drops.
But anyways, with that beingsaid, let's get into today's
episode.
I want you to think about thetime that you're listening to
this.
I want you to also think aboutyour stomach.
I want you to think am I hungryor am I not hungry, right, like
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?
I really want you to stop andthink about that.
For some of you that arelistening to this.
You might be stuffing your faceright now no judgment, because
I'm actually hungry right nowand recording this episode, but
it's all good.
You got to be aware of yourhunger.
You have to be aware of yourlevel of hunger.
There's no doubting the factthat we all get hungry.
We have moments where we arehungry, right.
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But at the same time, there'ssomething else that is on the
underlying surface of hunger.
Once you have understood thefact that your stomach has
connected to your brain, or senta signal to your brain letting
you know that it's hungry, thenthere's a thing called appetite.
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Right, there's a thing calledappetite.
And this only comes after wehave understood and noticed the
fact that we are hungry.
Your stomach is like hey bro,it's time to eat out.
And so now you have to decidewhat do I feel like eating?
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That's the question.
What do I feel like eating?
And even if I don't feel likeeating, and even if I don't feel
like eating, I know I have toeat because my stomach is saying
that I'm hungry.
So it's a fact.
And if I do not eat, there arecertain things that will happen
to me in the process, and someof y'all know how you, you, you,
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you, you suffer from umhangriness, right.
When you are hungry and youdon't eat, you get angry, you
get upset, you get whiny I mean,you turn into a kid again,
right, you're irritable.
There's different things thatcome from not feeding the hunger
, right, and then even sometimesyou struggle with knowing what
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the appetite is because you'reso hungry and sometimes the
attitude gets in the way and youcan't really articulate what
you need to be articulatingbecause you're so hungry.
But I want to point to thesedefinitions and I want you to
write this down or, in fact, goto the website, because I'm
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quoting these things off ofmyhealthalbertaca.
Right, and this was interestingas I was researching this topic
.
The overview says to listen toyour body to tell you when
you're hungry or full.
Listen to your body to tell youwhen you are hungry or fool.
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Now I'm going to go out oforder.
Since I was talking aboutappetite, I want to look at the
definition of appetite.
The word appetite is, it meansa desire for food.
Usually after seeing, smellingor thinking about food, even
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after you feel full, yourappetite can make you keep
eating.
That's crazy.
Did you hear that After you arereally full, your appetite can
make you keep eating.
It can also stop you fromeating even though you are
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hungry.
This might happen when you aresick or feeling stress.
I don't know about y'all, buthave you ever not the stress
feeling?
But it's not even.
I don't even think it's justsick.
I've been there where I've beensick and I didn't want certain
things and when I actually whenI was sick, I had a specific
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appetite, like I had like ataste for some hot wings.
I want some pizza, probably thestuff I didn't eat.
But I still had that appetitewhen my body was in a certain
condition.
So this is interesting, thatthe takeaway from this
definition is that even afteryou feel full, your appetite can
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make you keep eating.
Not to mention let's go back tothe first part of this
definition is that appetite is adesire for food, usually after
seeing, smelling or thinkingabout food.
So this reminds me of my kids,um, as they are all currently
still growing up.
They're all small, except forthe oldest, but sometimes
they're.
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They don't get hungry untilthey see me with something or
they see their mom withsomething.
Sometimes they don't even havea taste for food, but because
even and it's.
This is even when they're nothungry.
You just ate.
What do you want with mypopcorn?
Well, just because they're nothungry doesn't mean they don't
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have an appetite.
Oh, this is good we gettinginto the meat and potatoes early
.
Just because you're not hungrydoesn't mean you don't have an
appetite.
And appetites are dangerous.
Appetites are dangerous.
This is one of the reasons whyyou go to a restaurant and they
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ask you if you want to getstarted with any appetizers
today, because the appetizer isthe pregame for the, for the
full course, for the main course.
Right, the main course is theentree, the, the, the meatloaf,
for, uh, the chicken or thesalmon with the rice and all
these things, and then thedessert comes after.
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Right, you have all of thesethings.
But watch this regardless ofyour level of hunger, you're
still gonna have an appetite.
So appetite is a desire forfood, usually after seeing,
smelling or thinking about food.
It's a desire for food, usuallyafter seeing, smelling or
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thinking about food, even afteryou feel full, your appetite can
make you keep eating.
It can also stop you fromeating, even though you are
hungry.
This is powerful.
Even though you are hungry,this is powerful, I believe,
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since we're about almost 10minutes into this episode, you
already know where this is going.
But let me continue, because wesaid that even though you're
hungry, even though you'rehungry, it doesn't mean that you
do not have an appetite.
In other words, appetite isalways working, regardless of
how hungry you are.
So let's look at the wordhunger.
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Hunger is a normal sensationthat makes you want to eat.
Your body tells your brain thatyour stomach is empty eat.
Your body tells your brain thatyour stomach is empty.
Your body tells your brain thatyour stomach is empty.
This makes your stomach growland gives you hunger pangs.
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Hunger makes some people feellightheaded or mean, irritated,
grouchy.
Everyone is different, right,but we know that there is a bad
side effect of not obeyinghunger right in the natural.
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There is a negative side effectof not obeying your hunger
Because it's a normal sensation.
The human mind, body and soulhas a normal sensation that
makes us want to eat.
Our body tells our brain thatour stomach is empty.
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This makes our stomach growland gives us hunger pangs.
Hunger makes people feeldifferent ways, but either way,
it's not a cool feeling, likenobody goes hungry, like
willingly, other than whenyou're fasting right, like
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willingly, other than whenyou're fasting.
Right, and again, not to getinto fasting, but your appetite
has to be different.
Even in fasting, the fleshappetite is always working
against the spirit's appetite,but I don't want to get too far
ahead of myself.
So hunger is partly controlled,right, hunger is partly
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controlled by a part of ourbrain called the hypothalamus
your brain, your blood sugar,glucose level, how empty your
stomach and intestines are, andcertain hormone levels in your
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body.
Hunger is partly controlled bya part of your brain called the
hypothalamus your blood sugar,glucose level and how empty your
stomach and intestines are, andcertain hormones hormone levels
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in your body, right.
So again, this is a normalsensation.
This is what makes us want toeat.
This is what makes us want toeat.
If we eat or if we do not eat,we automatically have a.
What?
An appetite?
Right, we automatically have anappetite.
Now, what about?
Because appetite, then?
The definition of appetite saysthat appetite after, even after
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we feel full appetite, can makeus keep eating.
It can also stop us from eating, even though we are hungry, all
right.
So your appetite shifts, andthere are two different sides to
this, and we'll.
We'll get to that in just asecond.
But let's go to fullness.
What does it mean to be full?
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Fullness is a feeling of beingsatisfied.
Your stomach tells your brainthat it is full.
This is interesting, isn't thatamazing, how the stomach talks
to the brain like you can feelit.
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Have you ever felt full but youwere still hungry to continue
eating?
This just recently happened tome when I was on a cruise,
probably last month, two monthsago now.
When I was on a cruise probablylast month, two months ago now,
I don't know, it was this yearand I felt so full, but yet I
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was still hungry.
I still had an appetite,because some of the things that
I was eating it was veryspecific.
I wasn't eating like eggs anddifferent things like that.
I was eating like the sugarstuff or the sugar-free stuff.
I was eating this kind of stuff, but I realized, okay, I'm full
, there is nothing healthy aboutthis situation.
So I was doing all that I couldto try to relieve my stomach.
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Y'all know what I'm talkingabout.
I was trying to do whatever itis that I needed to do, but I
couldn't do it.
I couldn't do it like my, my,my body was not functioning
properly, but I knew I couldn'tkeep on eating because I fell
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full right.
So normally this feeling causesus to stop eating and not think
about food again for severalhours.
Fullness is partly controlledby the hypothalamus, blood sugar
and having food in our stomachand intestines.
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Let me say this again Fullnessis a feeling of being satisfied.
It's a feeling of beingsatisfied.
Your stomach tells your brainthat it is full.
Normally, this feeling causesus to stop eating and not even
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think about food for severalhours.
Have you ever been full andlooked at somebody else's food
and felt like you were gettingready to throw up?
Why?
Because of the appetite.
Your appetite is turned off,because you are full Now, but
your appetite shifts in anotherway and you have an appetite to
not eat.
Are you understanding wherethis is going?
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I pray that y'all are really,really, really picking up what
the Holy Spirit is putting downright now, because this is rich,
all right.
Fullness is a feeling of beingsatisfied.
Your stomach tells your brainthat it is full.
Your stomach is always going totell your brain something.
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Your stomach is connected toyour what your flesh, your
stomach is considered flesh.
Stomach is always going todesire something and it's going
to tell your brain going todesire something and it's going
to tell your brain.
And then you have the momentbetween, uh uh, your thought
process, your, your thoughts,the, the, the will, your will,
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in between thoughts and stomach,in between.
That is decision.
Oh man, let me say that againyour will is in the middle
between stomach, which is flesh,thought, which is spirit, and
you have to make a decision.
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That is where you are.
And, as we're getting ready totalk more spiritual, I want you
to understand the natural,because this is how we work.
Naturally, everybody, like it,does it doesn't.
It doesn't matter where youcome from, it doesn't matter
what you believe in.
The fact remains here's if wewant to talk about science, we
want to.
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We want to believe in science.
I believe what they studiedabout the body, and it's amazing
because God made this body thatwe live in, and so, quite
naturally, whatever is happeningin the body, in the natural,
it's also true for the spirit.
It can be true for the spirit,right?
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So fullness is this feelingthat causes us to stop eating
and not think about food againfor several hours.
So, again, when we look atother people's food, you look at
somebody else eating and youjust ate a full meal and then
you watch one of these videos orone of these social media
people uh, like I mean globs offood on their plates and I mean
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food plates from seafoodrestaurants and all these other
places and they talking aboutand they eating and slurping and
licking fingers and doing allthis like stuff.
Watch this.
It almost becomes nasty.
When you are full and you watchsomebody else eat a full plate
of food, you'll see somebodyelse full plate of food.
I got to go.
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It's time to go because you aredone.
Your appetite is telling you Iwant to sleep.
You have a different appetitefor different things, different,
a different type of appetite.
It's not even related to food.
It don't even have to be foodrelated.
Now it becomes more, uh,thought-based and and
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feeling-based, emotion-based,right.
So it's important that weunderstand that the fullness, uh
, this feeling of fullness, ispartly controlled by the
hypothalamus, our blood sugarand having food in our stomach
and intestines.
They said at the very beginningof this I read what they wrote
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and they said listen to yourbody to tell you when you are
hungry or full.
Listen to your body to tell youwhen you are hungry or full.
Listen to your body to tell youwhen you are hungry or full Now
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, when you are living this lifein Christ and going about your
everyday business.
This is not true for you Now.
We do this by nature.
We already know this.
By nature, when we're hungry,we go and get something to eat
in the natural.
But I really want you tounderstand and take hold of this
and grab this entire concept ofall these three things of
hunger, fullness and appetite.
I want you to grab these threethings and think about them in
the spirit, think about them inyour spiritual walk.
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While you're living this lifein Christ, right, while we are
faced with certain temptations,when we are going through these
different trials, right, we knowthat the testing, the testing
of our faith, is workingpatience.
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Patience is is supposed to haveher perfect work.
Patience is supposed to doeverything that is that, that
that it's supposed to do,because that's what we need as
we go through this life inChrist.
But I want you to understandthat you cannot listen to your
body to tell you when you arehungry or full.
You have to listen to the HolySpirit, because the Holy Spirit
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is always going to let you knowthat you are hungry.
It's going to speak to theappetite.
The Holy Spirit gives you theappetite that you need, as long
as you're willing to lean on theSpirit and not lean onto what
your stomach is telling you,what your flesh is telling you.
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Your flesh will tell you I needto get this money.
Your stomach may be saying I'mhungry, I'm broke, I need money.
I need to get it like this, Ineed to get it like this, I need
to get it like that.
All of the people, all of thedope boys, all of everybody
who's ever sold drugs in theirlife, they have told themselves
this because their stomach,which is their flesh, the flesh
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has spoken to them in theirhunger, in the condition of
their, in what their mindset is,in that they are hungry and
that they need to do somethingabout the hunger.
And they're never full, evenwhen they've made enough.
This is why a lot of drugdealers get caught.
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Not condoning drug dealing atall is completely wrong, but a
lot of people get caught whenthey don't have the mind to quit
because what?
They're full and just becausethey had an appetite for this
thing.
Again, remember, appetite canmake you keep eating when you
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are full.
When their pockets got full,they continue to sell, they
continue to sling because theappetite came from the wrong
spirit, the wrong desire.
They fed a hunger that that wasfed in the wrong way.
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If you are hurting for money,my friend, go get a job.
Put in work, work overtime.
You not making enough money onthat job.
Listen, go to a communitycollege or take a workshop.
Acquire new skillsire newskills, skill up, bring value to
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what you already know how to do, and apply for higher paying
jobs.
This is, this is the way aroundit.
And even, and even in themiddle of that, you're
acknowledging God in all of yourways and he's directing your
path and he's the one that opensup doors that no man can close.
But when you go out trying tofulfill a hunger of the stomach,
you're always going to run intothings that are no good for you
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.
Sin is a food that is no goodfor you.
It's no good for you, and wealready know that those who are
born of God should not, will not, commit sin.
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This has been like a strongtopic on all of my platforms
lately, because there's a lot ofpeople that seem to think that
you're going to do it.
But that's not how we live ourlife.
We don't live our life thinkingwe're going to do anything.
We live our life, a life that'spleasing to God by faith,
because without faith it isimpossible to please him.
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So what happens when you giveyour life to Christ?
There's an appetite change.
My appetite for the world isgoing to automatically cause me
to obey my hunger and I'm goingto overeat.
I'm going to do things thatthat are not conducive to my
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salvation.
I'm not going to do things IfI'm in sin.
I'm obeying my stomach until Iam full and then, when I have
depleted the nutrition that Ithought was good for me, when we
have depleted, when that wastehas gone out, when that waste
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has gone out, we continue toconsume it again because we love
bad eating habits and we knowwhat bad eating habits do.
We already know that eating toomuch or too little of certain
foods and nutrition can raisethe risk of dying of heart
disease, stroke and type 2diabetes.
More than that, obesity and theincreased certain risk and
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increased certain risk factorsfor stroke, heart disease and
cancer disease and cancer.
When you eat too much of theworld, when you are eating sin,
consuming sin by living in sinin your everyday life and call
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yourself a believer, first ofall, you're disconnected, and it
proves that you have beenskipping meals.
And when we skip meals, we gothrough these hunger pains.
And these hunger pains is theHoly Spirit calling out to us to
let us know hey, you're missingthe bread.
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You didn't have your breadtoday.
This is why when we this is whyPaul said, I die daily, we have
to constantly kill away theflesh.
We have to constantly wake upsurrender.
We have to constantly be, uh,doing things on purpose, calling
on the name of the Lord,because he's the only way.
He's the only way, he's theonly way, he's the only way,
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he's the only way that we canmake it.
He's the only way that we canmake it.
This is why we have to beconsistent in the word of God.
You got to be consistent in theword of God because if you're
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not, then your appetite screamssin.
You have an appetite for all ofthe things that we don't need,
because we're trying to be fullof those things that we should
not be full of.
I hope that makes sense.
Did that make sense?
We should not be full of thethings that we don't need.
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Again, these bad eating habits.
Bad eating habits are sinfulpractices or practices that can
lead to sin.
And again, when you skip meals,it can affect your mood.
When we don't eat, we feel thesymptoms such as dizziness,
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irritation, and watch this.
When we skip a meal, it makesus more prone to overeat at our
next meal or increase cravingsfor anything.
Huh, I hope I'm saying thiseffectively.
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I hope I'm saying thiseffectively because, again, when
we skip out on meals, it makesus more prone to overeat at our
next meal.
And here's what I mean by this,because this is a fact in the
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natural.
But what I'm pointing out toyou is that when we skip reading
the word of God, when we skipreading the word of God, when we
skip taking in scripture likewe should, it increases our
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cravings for the world.
It increases our cravings forthings that are not of God In
the natural.
When it says, this is talkingabout talking about food, is
talking about the human stomachor the human experience.
Eat at our next meal orincrease cravings for anything,
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such as high fat foods and highsugar foods, because we feel so
hungry.
Because you feel so hungry, youknow it's real easy to overeat.
You skip a meal and then youbecome more hungry and then at
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the next opportunity to eat.
So here's the thing your nextopportunity to eat.
What are you eating?
Is it the word of God?
Or are you consuming the highfatty food and high sugar diet
snacks and filth of words thatare not of God?
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Are you?
Are you consuming, uh, real,sweet, sugar-coated words of of
wisdom?
Sweet, sugar-coated, uh gospel.
Is this what you are consuming?
Are you consuming the world?
Because?
Is this what you are consuming?
Are you consuming the world?
Because this is what causes youto be obese in the spirit.
How do you be obese in thespirit?
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Well, you become obese when youbecome obese in the spirit, and
this means that you get too bigfor the word of God.
This means you get too big forknowledge and wisdom and
understanding from the most highgod.
You get too big.
You're not only on a high horse, you're in the sky.
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You're high.
You're too high to come in low,because we know that the lord
resists the proud and he exaltsthe humble.
And when you have builtyourself up on on high fat and
high sugar foods because youwere so hungry, that is what
your appetite, your appetite wasto obey your stomach, which is
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your flesh.
Please, again, I hope you'reconnecting these things.
I'm bringing spiritual thingsparallel with the flesh so that
you can understand.
And you have to know that again, when you fail to take in the
word of God, when you fail totake in the scriptures, it is
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easier for temptation to haveits way with you.
And temptation does not have towin.
I tell people this all the timeTempt, temptation does not have
to win.
I tell people this all the time.
Temptation does not have to win.
It may look good, it may soundgood, it may even feel good,
based on what it sounds like andthe feel.
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And and when I say feel goodbased on what you've experienced
in the past when you did thesethings in the past, your memory,
your memory starts moving andyou start going back into the
things of old, you startconsidering the things of old
and you forget about the newself, you forget about the new
you and the devil successfullyresuscitates you, your, your
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flesh, he resuscitates the ou,he does cpr on the ou again.
And between your thought,between your thoughts, which is
of the spirit, which is wherethe spirit speaks, and your
stomach, which is what the devilspeaks to, you have to make the
decision.
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Am I going to choose what thespirit wants and what the lord
wants for me.
What is the righteous thing todo, or am I going to choose what
the spirit wants and what theLord wants for me?
What is the righteous thing todo, or am I going to choose what
the stomach wants?
Am I going to choose what theflesh wants?
James, chapter 1, verse 13 and14 one of my favorite verses,
and I'm gonna read this from theCSB.
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It says no one undergoing atrial should say I am being
tempted by God, because weunderstand that temptation is
not of God.
Temptation is automaticallygoing to come to scream at the
flesh and provoke the flesh.
This is all what temptationdoes.
Temptation provokes the flesh.
So let no one say that I ambeing tempted by God, since God
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is not tempted by evil and hehimself doesn't tempt anyone.
But each person is tempted whenhe is drawn away and enticed by
his own evil desires.
Didn't say desires, says evildesires, whatever is not of God,
whatever is not of God.
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When you're enticed, whenyou're entertained, when you are
amused and enjoy what you knowis not good for you.
That is how temptation issuccessful.
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When you've allowed temptationto provoke you to action, when
the thought watch this always athought of the holy spirit is
always going to come to bringyou the word of god, tell you no
.
Sometimes the holy spirit willsay no, no, get out, get out,
get out.
And it's so pressing, but theflesh is also pressing as well.
But what is what is what isbetter for you?
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Let me answer that for you, theSpirit, the Holy Spirit, the
Holy Spirit knows what's best,because the Holy Spirit is from
God.
The Lord doesn't tempt us to doevil y'all.
We are tempted because of ourown sinful nature.
This is why we, we die daily,because the flesh is imperfect,
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and that's what makes us notperfect in the flesh.
That is what makes us uh, uh,uh, we are.
We are unavailable to sin bychoice, but it doesn't make us
be in a state to where we arecompletely like, where we're not
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tempted.
We will be tempted on everyside, right, and it's only a
temptation, because we are drawnaway by our own evil desires.
But here's the thing thank godfor the one who delivered us
from this death of sin, jesus,and then gave us the power of
the holy spirit so that we canovercome the sinful nature.
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Right, the flesh isautomatically sinful hands down,
and I've always said this.
This is a a reminder.
This text uh, james, one is isa great reminder to stay on
guard in our battle againsttemptation.
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It's easy to, it's easy to passit.
All we got to do is just say no.
Somebody offered you acigarette, you don't smoke.
You say no, right, you're nottempted, because that's not what
you desire.
So, as you go on to follow thelord, it doesn't mean that you
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won't ever be tempted as youmove forward.
It just means that you won'tobey the appetite and it's
easier for you to say no.
That's, that's how we move whenit comes to loving the Lord and
living in the spirit, becauseit doesn't matter how long we've
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been believers, we're stillsusceptible to temptation.
We're still susceptible totemptation, and I've always said
this, and this is I don't likewhen people try to use Peter,
they say Peter denied him threetimes during one dark night.
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Peter was not immune totemptation, and neither are
Christians today.
That's what some say right, butI differ here, because Peter
was not full of the Holy Ghostwhen he denied Christ three
times.
He did what he was going to dobecause he was afraid, although
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they believed, they didn't havethe Holy Spirit.
So what does that mean?
If Peter had the Holy Spiritwhile he, if Peter had watch
this, they went through the samethings that Jesus went through
with the Holy Spirit and hewasn't afraid and he didn't deny
Christ.
And he wasn't afraid and hedidn't deny Christ.
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And there was no sin other thanthe sin of partiality that
Peter showed and Paul had torebuke him.
That was it, the sin ofpartiality.
He got up from the table whilehe was sitting with Gentiles and
Paul had to rebuke him.
He called him out on it becausethe Pharisees came and he was
like, oh, I can't be seensitting with y'all, but that was
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about it, and we know thatthere was some.
There was where Paul andsomeone else had a dispute and
they didn't agree on everything.
They didn't agree on something,so they went their way.
Was it sinful?
I don't think so.
It's not illegal or it's not asin for you to have a
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disagreement.
It's how you handle thedisagreement right.
So we need to understand Luke 4and 13 that I've quoted before
many times as we're coming tothe close of this episode.
It says ESV version says andwhen the devil had ended every
temptation.
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He departed from him until anopportune time.
And he's talking about Jesushere.
Right, jesus is tempted by thedevil.
Right, jesus is tempted by thedevil.
And so Jesus successfullypassed passes, temptation or
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test, while the devil is tryingto tempt the Lord.
He says it is written thoushalt not tempt the Lord, that
God.
And he tells him to bow beforehim and all this stuff.
And then Jesus tells him getbehind me, satan.
And then he flees.
Right, and this is interesting,that it says he departed from
him.
Luke 4, 13 says he departedfrom him until an opportune time
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, and another version would sayuntil.
It says until, basically, hecomes.
He just he comes in seasons.
He's waiting for a particulartime to come, he's waiting for a
particular moment to come back.
So there you have it.
It's never meant for the devilto just completely leave you
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alone.
It's not true as a believer.
No, the devil is always goingto be after you.
There's going to be seasonswhere it feels as if it's easy,
where the devil ain't botheringyou.
But he is.
But it's just that you got yourmind.
That's why your mind has toalways be in him, because if
it's in him, then you're goingto be all right If it's in him.
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You're going to be all right.
Right, if you won't even reallynotice what the devil I mean.
You'll notice what the devil isdoing, you'll know that the
enemy is busy, but there's noneed to call him out.
We just need to call on jesus.
Right, because your appetite,when you call on jesus, your
appetite will stay intact, yourappetite will remain where it is
supposed to be.
Right and watch this.
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The devil does this in thebeginning of Jesus's ministry,
that he is tempted by the devil,but he was able to resist him
because the Lord Jesus wassubmitted to the Father and
because he was submitted to theFather.
I want you to see that andunderstand the fact that Jesus
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was submitted.
When we go to the book of Jamesright James chapter one, the
James chapter one of four Jamessays I believe it's chapter four
.
James says I believe it'schapter four.
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He says submit yourself to God,resist the devil.
This is not saying he mightflee from you.
It says he will flee from you.
And then verse eight says drawnear to God and he will draw
near to you.
Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts.
You double-minded, you of twominds.
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Again.
This tells us that we can'thave two minds.
We have to stay submitted toGod, drawing near to him.
Right, this is how we obey theappetite of the Holy Spirit,
because the Holy Spirit is thespirit that was in Jesus and we
know that it all comes from God.
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It's God the Father, god theSon and God the Holy Ghost.
These three are one becausethey agree.
And when Jesus ascended, hegave the Holy Ghost to the
church, fell upon all men, holyGhost.
He gave the Holy Ghost to thechurch, fell upon all men.
He pours out his spirit uponall flesh so that you have the
ability to operate and walk evenas he walked.
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So what's your appetite beenlately?
What has your appetite beenlately?
Has it been for the word of God?
Has your hunger been for theworld or has it been for the
word?
I'm even asking myself thisquestion daily.
What is my appetite for real?
What is my appetite All right?
So, as you continue, I want youto ask yourself this question.
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And if it is that your stomachis empty, you need to get to
reading, you need to get tostudying, you need to get to
praying.
You need to keep doing all ofthese things every day.
All right, listen.
God bless each and every one ofyou that have listened to this
episode.
I hope that it has been ablessing to you as it has been a
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blessing to me.
This is the conclusion of thisepisode.
Why do I always do this and Ialways forget the other segment?
They have to be stopped.
You got an idea?
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