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It is day four of our ADHD
friendly advent study. (00:00):
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Speaker: If you are new here. (00:03):
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Speaker: Hi, my name is Rachel. (00:03):
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Speaker: I'm an ADHD and a Jesus lover and I help fellow women with (00:04):
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Speaker: chaotic brains seek, find and live the abundant life that (00:08):
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Speaker: Jesus offers us. (00:11):
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Speaker: If you are just finding it today, you are not behind. (00:12):
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Speaker: This study is specifically designed to be low effort while (00:14):
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Speaker: being high impact. (00:17):
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Speaker: It is study or it is created rather for ADHD brains. (00:18):
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Speaker: So even if this is your first day seeing this study, you are (00:22):
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Speaker: in the right place. (00:24):
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Speaker: Let's get into it. (00:26):
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Speaker: But real quick there is a free (00:27):
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Speaker: workbook that goes along with (00:28):
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Speaker: this. (00:30):
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Speaker: You can download that at the link in my bio. (00:30):
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Speaker: Okay, let's dive in for today. (00:33):
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Speaker: If you have not listened to this week's song, which is O come, O (00:34):
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Speaker: come, Emmanuel, I would highly recommend taking a second going (00:37):
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Speaker: and listening to that. (00:41):
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Speaker: The skillet version that just came out is fantastic. (00:42):
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Speaker: Um, so if you have not done that, go ahead and listen. (00:45):
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Speaker: Otherwise we can just get going. (00:48):
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Speaker: Today we've got a short passage of scripture and only one (00:49):
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Speaker: journaling prompts today. (00:52):
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Speaker: And just for those who are new, (00:53):
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Speaker: there is a suggested schedule in (00:55):
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Speaker: the study. (00:57):
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Speaker: Uh, in the workbook, it's listed out there. (00:58):
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Speaker: If you are the type of person (01:00):
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Speaker: who thrives on a little bit more (01:01):
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Speaker: structure, awesome. (01:03):
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Speaker: It's there for you. (01:03):
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Speaker: Otherwise, you are free to consume whatever parts of the (01:05):
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Speaker: study that week that you want, in whatever order you want. (01:07):
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Speaker: It is designed to be accessible and flexible for you and how (01:11):
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Speaker: your brain works. (01:14):
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Speaker: Because God designed your brain that way. (01:15):
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Speaker: He meant it to be like that. (01:17):
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Speaker: So we're working with it. (01:18):
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Speaker: Okay, so today's scripture (01:20):
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Speaker: passage, we are still in Luke (01:21):
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Speaker: one. (01:22):
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Speaker: I am in the ESV. (01:23):
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Speaker: We are reading verses twenty one through twenty five today. (01:24):
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Speaker: Uh, let me find twenty one. (01:28):
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Speaker: Where is it? (01:30):
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Speaker: Ah, and the people were waiting (01:30):
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Speaker: for Zechariah, and they were (01:31):
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Speaker: wondering at his delay in the (01:33):
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Speaker: temple. (01:34):
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Speaker: And when he came out, he was unable to speak to them, and (01:35):
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Speaker: they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. (01:37):
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Speaker: And he kept making signs to them and remained mute. (01:41):
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Speaker: And when the time of his service was ended, he went to his home. (01:44):
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Speaker: After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for (01:47):
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Speaker: five months she kept herself hidden, saying, thus the Lord (01:50):
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Speaker: has done for me in the days when he looked on me to take away my (01:53):
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Speaker: reproach among the people. (01:57):
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Speaker: Which, as we talked about (01:59):
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Speaker: previously, the reproach she's (02:00):
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Speaker: talking about. (02:02):
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Speaker: She and her husband had been (02:03):
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Speaker: barren for all of their adult (02:04):
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Speaker: lives, which had multiple (02:05):
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Speaker: implications, especially in that (02:06):
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Speaker: culture. (02:08):
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Speaker: Number one, you know, your kids were your retirement plan. (02:08):
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Speaker: If you didn't have children to (02:11):
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Speaker: care for you, you basically had (02:12):
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Speaker: no one to care for you when you (02:13):
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Speaker: aged out of being able to care (02:15):
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Speaker: for yourself. (02:16):
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Speaker: So on a very practical level, it was a very uncertain thing. (02:17):
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Speaker: It was introduced a lot of uncertainty when a couple did (02:20):
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Speaker: not have children. (02:24):
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Speaker: Number two, it also called into (02:25):
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Speaker: question your morality very, (02:27):
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Speaker: very, very heavily in that (02:29):
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Speaker: culture. (02:30):
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Speaker: If you were not able to have children, it was seen as God (02:31):
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Speaker: punishing you for something. (02:34):
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Speaker: And typically the woman, um, would you would essentially have (02:35):
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Speaker: your morality questioned, your character questioned, because (02:39):
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Speaker: just like we see in the story of the man who had been blind at (02:42):
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Speaker: birth that Jesus healed, people tend to question, okay, well, (02:45):
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Speaker: what did you do? (02:48):
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Speaker: What did your parents do that led to this, you know, (02:49):
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Speaker: disability that you have very much the same. (02:52):
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Speaker: Um, in the case of infertility, essentially the thought would (02:55):
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Speaker: be, okay, well, what did you do to deserve this? (02:58):
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Speaker: Which, as we know, fortunately, (03:01):
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Speaker: is not how God operates, and (03:02):
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Speaker: this is such a beautiful picture (03:04):
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Speaker: of how he had a plan for their (03:06):
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Speaker: pain. (03:07):
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Speaker: There was purpose in their pain. (03:08):
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Speaker: So they had been facing this (03:10):
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Speaker: reality of infertility, which is (03:13):
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Speaker: such an incredibly heavy thing (03:15):
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Speaker: to experience. (03:17):
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Speaker: And he ultimately had a plan for it that they had to question. (03:19):
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Speaker: They had to still have their faith in God their entire adult (03:22):
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Speaker: lives to get to this point. (03:25):
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Speaker: So this was not a quick resolution for them, which is (03:28):
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Speaker: something we at least I very much struggle with not knowing (03:30):
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Speaker: how long this season is going to last, not knowing how long this (03:35):
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Speaker: difficult thing is going to go on for can be an incredibly, (03:39):
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Speaker: incredibly difficult thing. (03:41):
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Speaker: Let me know if you can relate. (03:43):
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Speaker: And finally, you know, the third (03:45):
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Speaker: point is infertility is is (03:47):
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Speaker: incredibly difficult. (03:49):
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Speaker: So Zechariah and Elizabeth, even purely from the perspective of (03:50):
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Speaker: just wanting and longing to be parents, they did not have that. (03:54):
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Speaker: And so we see this angel come to Zechariah and go, hey, man, (03:59):
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Speaker: you're gonna have a baby. (04:02):
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Speaker: And they get that? (04:03):
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Speaker: Yes, from God. (04:05):
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Speaker: They've been just crying out to God for so long. (04:06):
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Speaker: They've been just desiring in the deepest heart of hearts to (04:08):
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Speaker: have a child. (04:12):
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Speaker: And they get that. (04:14):
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Speaker: Yes. (04:15):
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Speaker: And Zechariah's immediate response is to go, but how's (04:17):
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Speaker: that gonna happen? (04:21):
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Speaker: Like he goes, how shall I know this? (04:23):
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Speaker: For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years. (04:25):
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Speaker: He's like, uh, you're gonna have to prove it to me, my guy. (04:29):
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Speaker: Which is the wrong answer. (04:33):
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Speaker: Now, before I dig too deeply in here, let's go ahead and read (04:34):
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Speaker: the third Scripture journaling prompt, which is the only (04:38):
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Speaker: journaling prompt that is on the docket for today. (04:42):
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Speaker: When you receive a yes from God, what is your typical response? (04:44):
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Speaker: Do you automatically accept it and rejoice? (04:48):
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Speaker: Or do you like Zechariah, have a moment or many of doubt or even (04:50):
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Speaker: questioning God's motives? (04:55):
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Speaker: And again, all of these journaling prompts, along with (04:57):
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Speaker: everything you need to complete the study, is in the workbook (05:00):
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Speaker: that you can download for free at the link in my bio, so (05:02):
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Speaker: definitely go do that. (05:05):
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Speaker: I am doing this study for free, (05:06):
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Speaker: so if you would like to support (05:08):
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Speaker: me and buy me a coffee, you can (05:09):
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Speaker: also do that at the link in my (05:11):
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Speaker: bio. (05:12):
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Speaker: That would be very much appreciated. (05:12):
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Speaker: But the workbook is free, the study is free. (05:14):
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Speaker: All of it's free. (05:16):
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Speaker: It's at the link in my bio. (05:17):
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Speaker: Go download it now. (05:18):
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Speaker: I don't know about you. (05:20):
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Speaker: First pause. (05:21):
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Speaker: Take a minute. (05:22):
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Speaker: Go answer the journaling prompt for yourself. (05:22):
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Speaker: So pause this video, go do that and then come back. (05:25):
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Speaker: But for me, I want to be vulnerable here and share that I (05:28):
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Speaker: am very much like Zechariah. (05:31):
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Speaker: I tend to when God gives me a yes or a prayer is answered or a (05:33):
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Speaker: blessing comes my way, I'm waiting for the yes and I'm (05:37):
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Speaker: waiting for kind of the flip side of that. (05:41):
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Speaker: I'm waiting for the lesson. (05:43):
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Speaker: It's very difficult for me to (05:45):
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Speaker: just accept something as a gift (05:47):
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Speaker: from God. (05:49):
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Speaker: I have a very anxious brain and so my brain immediately is (05:50):
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Speaker: spinning, going, okay, what's the next part of the story? (05:54):
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Speaker: This is a wonderful thing. (05:57):
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Speaker: Yeah, but nothing is ever truly perfect. (05:59):
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Speaker: So if nothing's ever truly perfect and God constantly wants (06:01):
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Speaker: to refine us and make us better. (06:04):
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Speaker: What is the bad part of this that's going to refine me and (06:06):
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Speaker: make me better? (06:09):
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Speaker: Because in my experience, (06:10):
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Speaker: refinement is a can be, can be (06:12):
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Speaker: and has been for me, a very (06:14):
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Speaker: painful process. (06:16):
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Speaker: I've been in a season of refinement for about four and a (06:17):
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Speaker: half years now, pretty much since my son was born. (06:20):
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Speaker: Um, and it's been really difficult. (06:23):
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Speaker: It's been really brutal. (06:25):
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Speaker: And while there's been so much (06:27):
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Speaker: beauty in this season as well, I (06:28):
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Speaker: am now married to a wonderful (06:30):
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Speaker: man. (06:32):
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Speaker: I have two other incredible (06:32):
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Speaker: kiddos whom I love very, very (06:34):
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Speaker: much. (06:36):
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Speaker: We have a wonderful home. (06:36):
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Speaker: I even have the chickens that I've wanted my entire life. (06:38):
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Speaker: There's so much beauty that came (06:42):
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Speaker: as a result of God's yeses to me (06:44):
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Speaker: in this season, but it is still (06:46):
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Speaker: very dark. (06:49):
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Speaker: It is still very challenging. (06:50):
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Speaker: There are still so many unanswered questions. (06:52):
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Speaker: And so if you are in a similar place where getting a yes from (06:54):
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Speaker: God, receiving something you've been praying for, hearing that (06:57):
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Speaker: door finally creak open, that you've been knocking and (07:01):
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Speaker: knocking at for so long. (07:04):
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Speaker: You are in a very normal place and you are in good company. (07:07):
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Speaker: If that door creaking open leads to more questions and leads to (07:11):
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Speaker: hesitation, we see here in the text from Zechariah that that's (07:15):
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Speaker: not the correct response. (07:19):
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Speaker: So we are, you know, called to fully trust in God. (07:20):
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Speaker: We are called to rejoice in the things that he gives us. (07:24):
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Speaker: He has a plan to prosper us and not to harm us. (07:28):
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Speaker: But that is not a promise of prosperity. (07:31):
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Speaker: Gospel. (07:33):
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Speaker: God challenged me to go look at Jeremiah twenty nine eleven (07:34):
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Speaker: today, and I ended up reading an article from the Bible Project (07:36):
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Speaker: on Jeremiah twenty nine eleven. (07:39):
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Speaker: And how, yes, it promises peace (07:42):
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Speaker: and prosperity and all of these (07:44):
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Speaker: wonderful things. (07:45):
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Speaker: But it is in the context of exile. (07:46):
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Speaker: God is telling the Israelites (07:49):
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Speaker: when they are exiled in Babylon, (07:50):
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Speaker: hey, yeah, I brought you out of (07:52):
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Speaker: Egypt and I gave you the (07:54):
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Speaker: promised land, and now you've (07:55):
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Speaker: been pulled out of the Promised (07:57):
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Speaker: Land. (07:58):
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Speaker: The land was very much part of their identity, and they once (07:58):
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Speaker: again had been pulled out of their home and sent into exile. (08:02):
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Speaker: They were oppressed. (08:06):
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Speaker: They were overworked. (08:07):
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Speaker: They were in what seemed like this very terrible situation. (08:08):
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Speaker: And there were prophets at that (08:11):
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Speaker: time telling them, don't worry, (08:13):
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Speaker: this is only going to last two (08:14):
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Speaker: years, two years, and you guys (08:16):
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Speaker: are out. (08:17):
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Speaker: You'll be good to go. (08:18):
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Speaker: And that was a lie. (08:19):
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Speaker: That was not the truth. (08:20):
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Speaker: And so Jeremiah, when he wrote these letters that then were (08:22):
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Speaker: sent to the the people who were exiled, living in Babylon. (08:24):
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Speaker: Golly, can you tell I'm about to start my period soon. (09:42):
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Speaker: Even in the darkest times imaginable, even when our (09:46):
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Speaker: circumstances do not change, there is so much that we can do (09:49):
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Speaker: to experience God's beauty for us that he has in mind for us (09:53):
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Speaker: that ultimately leads to his glory and our good. (09:58):
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Speaker: We can still experience that (10:01):
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Speaker: now, even in the midst of exile, (10:02):
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Speaker: even in the midst of the darkest (10:05):
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Speaker: season imaginable in the midst (10:06):
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Speaker: of whatever you are dealing (10:09):
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Speaker: with. (10:10):
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Speaker: If it is cancer, if it is job loss, both of those are on our (10:11):
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Speaker: plate right now. (10:14):
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Speaker: If it is the loss of a child, if (10:15):
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Speaker: it is the destruction of a (10:17):
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Speaker: marriage, if it is just a season (10:19):
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Speaker: of melancholy and you're not (10:21):
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Speaker: sure why. (10:23):
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Speaker: Whatever you are struggling with, God cares so incredibly (10:24):
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Speaker: deeply about it. (10:28):
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Speaker: And he has a plan for your good and for your peace. (10:29):
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Speaker: But that might include putting (10:33):
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Speaker: down roots in this season, and (10:35):
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Speaker: that is something that I am (10:37):
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Speaker: wrestling to come to terms with (10:39):
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Speaker: here. (10:40):
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Speaker: And I am working on preparing my heart so that when that next yes (10:41):
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Speaker: comes, when that next door starts to creak open, that I'm (10:45):
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Speaker: knocking at, my response can be joy instead of trepidation. (10:48):
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Speaker: So I invite you to join me in that today. (10:52):
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Speaker: I would love to hear from you in the comments what you are (10:55):
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Speaker: wrestling with right now. (10:58):
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Speaker: I would love to give you some encouragement, whether that's, (10:59):
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Speaker: you know, talking through it in the comments, whether that's (11:01):
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Speaker: responding to you in a video, you can always email me. (11:03):
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Speaker: My email is Rachel at Rachel. (11:06):
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Speaker: I read all of my emails. (11:08):
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Speaker: I respond to all of my emails as long as they are not from AI (11:09):
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Speaker: bots, that's a whole thing that's going on. (11:12):
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Speaker: It's really annoying. (11:15):
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Speaker: I swear. (11:16):
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Speaker: I create a new email account and boom, the next day it's filled (11:16):
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Speaker: up with just like AI garbage. (11:19):
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Speaker: But anyways, that is besides the point. (11:20):
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Speaker: I am here as a resource to you. (11:22):
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Speaker: I am here as an encouragement to you. (11:24):
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Speaker: You are welcome here. (11:25):
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Speaker: You are in the right place. (11:26):
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Speaker: You are never behind when you are seeking God. (11:28):
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Speaker: When you are in step with him, you are always in the right (11:30):
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Speaker: place at the right time. (11:35):
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Speaker: So that is all I have for you today. (11:37):
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Speaker: I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments. (11:39):
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Speaker: These episodes are available on my podcast, The True Grit (11:41):
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Speaker: Podcast with Rachel Grit. (11:44):
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Speaker: the other days, the goal is to (11:57):
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Speaker: keep it short and accessible (11:58):
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Speaker: again. (12:00):
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Speaker: We're going for low effort, high impact. (12:00):
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Speaker: That is the sweet spot for ADHD brains. (12:03):
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Speaker: But thank you so much for joining me today and I will see (12:05):
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Speaker: you in the next one. (12:07):
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Speaker: Bye. (12:09):
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Speaker: If you are new here. (00:03):
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Speaker: Hi, my name is Rachel. (00:03):
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Speaker: I'm an ADHD and a Jesus lover and I help fellow women with (00:04):
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Speaker: chaotic brains seek, find and live the abundant life that (00:08):
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Speaker: Jesus offers us. (00:11):
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Speaker: If you are just finding it today, you are not behind. (00:12):
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Speaker: This study is specifically designed to be low effort while (00:14):
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Speaker: being high impact. (00:17):
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Speaker: It is study or it is created rather for ADHD brains. (00:18):
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Speaker: So even if this is your first day seeing this study, you are (00:22):
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Speaker: in the right place. (00:24):
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Speaker: Let's get into it. (00:26):
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Speaker: But real quick there is a free (00:27):
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Speaker: workbook that goes along with (00:28):
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Speaker: this. (00:30):
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Speaker: You can download that at the link in my bio. (00:30):
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Speaker: Okay, let's dive in for today. (00:33):
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Speaker: If you have not listened to this week's song, which is O come, O (00:34):
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Speaker: come, Emmanuel, I would highly recommend taking a second going (00:37):
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Speaker: and listening to that. (00:41):
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Speaker: The skillet version that just came out is fantastic. (00:42):
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Speaker: Um, so if you have not done that, go ahead and listen. (00:45):
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Speaker: Otherwise we can just get going. (00:48):
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Speaker: Today we've got a short passage of scripture and only one (00:49):
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Speaker: journaling prompts today. (00:52):
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Speaker: And just for those who are new, (00:53):
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Speaker: there is a suggested schedule in (00:55):
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Speaker: the study. (00:57):
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Speaker: Uh, in the workbook, it's listed out there. (00:58):
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Speaker: If you are the type of person (01:00):
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Speaker: who thrives on a little bit more (01:01):
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Speaker: structure, awesome. (01:03):
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Speaker: It's there for you. (01:03):
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Speaker: Otherwise, you are free to consume whatever parts of the (01:05):
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Speaker: study that week that you want, in whatever order you want. (01:07):
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Speaker: It is designed to be accessible and flexible for you and how (01:11):
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Speaker: your brain works. (01:14):
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Speaker: Because God designed your brain that way. (01:15):
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Speaker: He meant it to be like that. (01:17):
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Speaker: So we're working with it. (01:18):
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Speaker: Okay, so today's scripture (01:20):
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Speaker: passage, we are still in Luke (01:21):
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Speaker: one. (01:22):
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Speaker: I am in the ESV. (01:23):
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Speaker: We are reading verses twenty one through twenty five today. (01:24):
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Speaker: Uh, let me find twenty one. (01:28):
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Speaker: Where is it? (01:30):
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Speaker: Ah, and the people were waiting (01:30):
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Speaker: for Zechariah, and they were (01:31):
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Speaker: wondering at his delay in the (01:33):
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Speaker: temple. (01:34):
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Speaker: And when he came out, he was unable to speak to them, and (01:35):
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Speaker: they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. (01:37):
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Speaker: And he kept making signs to them and remained mute. (01:41):
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Speaker: And when the time of his service was ended, he went to his home. (01:44):
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Speaker: After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for (01:47):
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Speaker: five months she kept herself hidden, saying, thus the Lord (01:50):
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Speaker: has done for me in the days when he looked on me to take away my (01:53):
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Speaker: reproach among the people. (01:57):
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Speaker: Which, as we talked about (01:59):
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Speaker: previously, the reproach she's (02:00):
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Speaker: talking about. (02:02):
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Speaker: She and her husband had been (02:03):
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Speaker: barren for all of their adult (02:04):
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Speaker: lives, which had multiple (02:05):
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Speaker: implications, especially in that (02:06):
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Speaker: culture. (02:08):
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Speaker: Number one, you know, your kids were your retirement plan. (02:08):
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Speaker: And Zechariah's immediate response is to go, but how's (04:17):
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Speaker: everything you need to complete the study, is in the workbook (05:00):
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Speaker: It's very difficult for me to (05:45):
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Speaker: And while there's been so much (06:27):
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Speaker: And that was a lie. (08:19):
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Speaker: And so Jeremiah, when he wrote these letters that then were (08:22):
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Speaker: Even in the darkest times imaginable, even when our (09:46):
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