#tcif Letting go 2 ( looking forward to the unseen) Opening Scripture: Psalm 32

On today’s episode, we continue with the second part of the topic on LETTING GO but seeing it from a different perspective.

I’m joined by a special guest (listen to find out) 😂 who shares some profound thoughts and nuggets on this topic.

Something that stood out for me was this statement made, “letting go is not giving up , it’s a way of finding a way to come back stronger.

Hope you’re Blessed as you listen.
Thank you 🙏🏽 ♥️

Episode Transcript

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I always want to salom Happy Friday, and thanks for tuning in to another
episode of The Thrive because it's Fridaypodcast. I hope you're doing well,
hope you had a love this weekand definitely looking forward to an amazing weekend.
So just a reminder as we're goingto start, don't forget to take

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a piece of paper or maybe justturn your front, take some notes,
remind yourself of the three things,maybe true, just one thing that you
have done this week that you havethrived at this week, you know,
and always just remember, despite itbeing a Friday, it is not too
late for you to just you know, still make the goals, to make
the plans, to pick something upand do it. There's always hope even

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in the last minute. So aswe begin, let's just say a word
of prayer. Dear Lord, wejust want to say thank you for this
day, thank you for your goodnessand you mersis, thank you for how
you have burths in the mighty nameof Jesus Father, will thank you for
granting us yet another day to justbe here to being your presence of God.
We just want to give you allthe glory in Jesus mighty name.

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I just want to commit this entirepodcast into your hands. Father, Lets
your kingdom come and it will bedone alone in the mighty name of Jesus
Christ. And I pray you,ah o God for every person who take
time to listen, replenish their timeand their resources in the mighty name of
Jesus Christ. Glory and hon abit to your woman, because only you
deserve it. Have a Father inJesus mighty name. I pray, pray
thanksgiving, I'm praise in my heart. Amen. Amen. So yes,

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again, I remind you to breakdown the three things. Two things are
the one thing that you think orfeel like you've thrived thrived at, and
just let that be an encouragement foryou that indeed you're doing something, you're
working towards something that you are notjust sitting idly not allowing the days to
pass by. You know, itwould definitely definitely be of help, I
believe. So for today, Well, before I get to say anything,

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a a scripture reading is coming fromour opening scripture. Sorry, it's coming
from some thirty two and I'm goingto read the entire chapter The Bible reads.
Blessed is the one whose transgreations areforgiven. Whose sins are covert.
Blessed is the one who's sin theLord does not count against them, and

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whose spirit is not deceit. WhenI kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my going all day long,for day and night, your hand was
heavy on me. My strength wassapped as in the heat of summer.
Then I acknowledge my sin to you, and don't cover up my iniquity,
I said, I will confess mytransgressions to the Lord, and you forgive

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the guilt of my sin. Therefore, let all the faithful pray to you,
while you may be found. Surelythe rising of the mighty waters will
not reach them. You am ahiding place. You will protect me from
trouble and surroumony with songs of deliverance. I will instruct you and teach you
in the way you should go.I will cancel you with my loving eye
on you. Do not be likethe horse or the mill, who have

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not understanding, but must be controlledby bit and bridle, or they will
not come to you. Many arethe walls of the wicked, but the
lords and failing love surrounds the oneswho trust in him. Rejoicing the Lord
and be glad you're righteous seeing oryou who are upright in heart? Amen.
And so there's just a scripture forus to start with, and I

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hope it encourages somebody as you're startingyour weekend, as you started your weekend,
as you're walking into your weekend,even as you just look to do
and go about any plans for theweekend. So for today's topic, it's
going to be a second part ofI think a topic that I talked about

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some time ago, some weeks ago. And the reason that it's the second
part is because somebody showed interest,didn't it, and they wanted to also
like share their view on it,and just like, oh sure, why
not? So with me, Ihave a special guest that is going to
be probably talking more. He's takingover the show for today, but of

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course I'll be here. And shouldI introduce you introduce yourself? Okay,
So with me here I have Idon't should call you mister or just I
think he introduced yourself because I mightjust end up subtracting things that I that
I shouldn't. Well, okay,what's your name? Please? All right?

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So my name is Mark, MarkJacob Marufuka from Okay. So this
is I'm here with Mark Jacob Marufuall the way from Zimbabwe and of course
he's going to be giving us adifferent insight on the aspect of letting go.
And the subtitle for it is lookingforward to the antwer So it's still

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going to the second part of lettinggo, but with the mindset of looking
forward to the an scene. Somaybe before I allow you to get into
what you want to share with ustoday, what exactly made you not want
to per see but what inspired yourthoughts to this part of looking forward to

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the anscene with reguarding too letting go? Wow, So I believe that like
when you're letting go of something,most of the times you'll be like,
let go because like you've given up. But for me, I didn't take
the part of giving up sort oflike okay, what if I'm letting go,

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but I'm looking forward to the anscenelike I'm looking forward for the future,
Like if I let go of thisthing, what is going to be
the future after this? What iswhat it is going to bring of it?
So I just thought, like,you know, you can let go
of things, and like it waswhen I was coming up with this idea.
I was just thinking, like sometimesyou let go of things and then

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you you're letting it go like you'reputting it in the hands of God.
So you're looking at the unseen,the things that you don't know about,
the things that you'll be like knowwhat, God, you know much better.
So like that's what I was thinking, And yeah, that's why I
give like the brackets looking for you'relooking forward and saying, okay, thank

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you so much. That's really reallyamazing. So I think you cannot take
it up from here. Then youcan get the introduction, but is you
going to say it? Then ofcourse can take a musical break afterwards,
so over to you. All right, thank you. So I'm not going
to do my introduction. And Ihope you're having a good time, whether
you're coming from work or you're stillat work, or you're on your way

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back home. And I hope thatyour week was blessed. Your week was
just a week of thriving and makingsure that things get to business or to
work. So looking forward, likeI mean looking back to the whole week.
Probably right now wherever you are,you're actually wondering like, okay,

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why did I not do this?And why did I not achieve on certain
things? Those are some of thethings that we are saying or why I'm
trying to say, like let goof those things. You know your situation,
like, so let go of thosethings that you're not able to do.
Like you know, when you're lettinggo, I think it's not like

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you're giving up. It's not away of giving up, but it's a
way of surrendering like this, Christians. Sometimes you're like, you know what
I've done or I can. I'vetried, I've read four, three,
four or five times, but nowI'm just letting go, like God have
your own way. Yeah, sosometimes you just to let go of things

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that you tried. Actually, sookay, so the first things first,
letting go is not failing whatsoever.It's not failing. It's just a way
of being humble, a way ofbeing like, you know what, God
have your own way, heave yourway, like I've done all I can.
Sometimes you know situations, you try, try, try hard, So

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when you're letting go, it's notlike you try once and then you're like,
ah, it's not coming out well, so I have to let go.
You try like four or five times, but then you feel like you
actually say that I've been trying,but nothing is working out. Those things
you have to let them go,put it in the ends of God.
And you know, God, wejust worke some miracle. And what if

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whatever you're wondering about, what thethings that you didn't do on Wednesday,
things that you didn't do on Monday. What if God is just trying to
show you that, you know what, I'm there for you actually in the
scriptures like I'm there for you.I was mom, he said. The
Bible says I will be with youeven to the end of the world,

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so which means whatever you're going through, whatever you're going to be going through,
he knows. Sometimes, you know, I feel like we don't get
what we want because we don't giveGod the chance. It's like a baby
like you all, like know,as we are growing up, sometimes you
feel like, no, I cando this, I can do this.

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I can do this, but someof the things you need to go to
the elders. You need to goand ask your mom. Like let's say
you're dating someone and then things arenot working out. You're like, I
know what, I'm going to fixit. I'm going to but if you
go back now and just ask letgo of your guards and your your fate
and everything, like you know what, let me just go and ask those

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who have been there already. Yeah, right, go and ask and then
they'll give you ideas. They'll sobe humble, humble enough to realize that,
Okay, there are actually people cando this. But in this aspect
of letting go and looking forward tothe n scene, we're letting go of
all our situations, all our trialsinto the hands of God. So on

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that one I was I was justthinking, like actually not thinking at the
same time. I would want alittle bit to expand and to give us
maybe a better understanding of being humble. It's not being proud, right,
being arrogant, and it's like you'redestroying like that spirit of independence, Like

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you can do it. You know, I can do it. I can
do this on my own. Imaginelike when you're doing like meth or something
like that school and then they're justhitting your left, right and center to
let go of your guards, andyou're like, you know what, friend
help me, Friend help me someof the time. Like yeah, so
letting go looking forward to the unscene, look forward with like forward to like

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if I let go of this situation, what is it going to bring you?
See? So, yeah, lettinggo is not it's a way of
not being proud, and it's away of accepting like, okay, this
is it. I've tried. Letme try something new. So like you

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know, when you go back tothe Bible, I was actually thinking about
Nowomi, there was actually a timeshe had to let go of here two
daughters in love. Yeah, yeah, you still remember that. Yeah,
she had to live like asked him, like you know whatever, you're you're
here for her husbands and whatever,like the riches or whatever. They're no

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longer here. You've tried everything,but now it's time to let go.
Like, so letting go it's kindof a way of trying. It's like
a trying time, true. Yeah, Like when you look AT's like in
this other direction of Naomi and thetwo reason Ruth and Upper like it was
like a trying time for them tosee Like, okay, so imagine if

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Ruth was like, you know what, I'm not going to I'm I'm I'm
not going to stay here, right, I'm not going to to to to
follow this lady. But look atthe story of Ruth. Now all of
us we can a bit like sisters. They're like, no, I want
to be like Ruth. I wantto find my own brother. I understand.

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Now all of us, as Christians, we're able to actually talk about
Ruth. She had a tasting timeto like she was let go. But
then at the same time Ruth wasletting I mean, she was letting them
go, right, yes, butfor us, Now for Ruth, she
looked at the answerne for she lookedat the answerne from but she didn't see

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now the anseen things right. Butthen she was like, of course what
I was here for, it's notit's not here anymore. But so letting
go, you let go, butbe sure that whatever you're letting go,
Let's say it's in a relationship,it's not productive getting something out of it.

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Let it go, just to knowto give like congrete or strength to
what I'm saying. Okay. Sothe Bible, like you know, just
the Bible in oh scripture, now, okay, the Bible in Ephesians Ephesians

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four twenty six says the Bible reads, do not let the sun go down
while you're still angry. Do notlet the sun go down while you're still
angry, Like I mean, I'mnot going to read all of it,
but you heard yourself, like,don't let that, like, just let
it go. Whether somebody like theydid bad, they say something bad to

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you at work today or last Imean Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, don't
go with it to like the weekend, and then on Monday you're back.
You're angry at that person last weekyou did this, let it go.
Just let it go, and yousee the benefits of letting. Sometimes you
let go of things and the benefitsout of it, like they're just wow,

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amazing, you know, Like anotherone like when God was like he
let go of setting to go andtry Job, and now all of us
Christians we can actually say our Redeemerlives just because of Job. That's true,
right, But God he let goof sating. Sometimes you let go

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of things. Okay, I'm tryingto you know, Yeah, God he
let go of setting so that allof us as questions we can actually see
like it's like a testing time nomatter what, God is always on our
side. Yeah, and then Jobis just coming. There's like you know
what, I know, my redeveis like what's theever I'm going through right

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now, he lives. So whatsoeveryou are going through, the lady brother,
mother, under school fees, letgo of those things. My father
says, like they're saying that.My father told me. He said,
like, let go and let Godheave this way. So you let go

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of the situation that you're in.Let go of anything that you're going through,
depression, many issues, let itgo and let God heav his own
way. Wow, that's really reallyamazing. Thank you, Thank you so
much. So I think, takea breath. I'll give you a couple
so you can just relax, AndI'm going to take the first musical break

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and system from Kirk Frankly, thelegendary Cook Frankly. It's entitled ice Smell
be blessed as you listen. Idedicate this song to massion, depression,
an Annoymtory days there is no sunshineback of the clouds, and it start

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in my heart and it feels likea cold night. Today's a day we're
amount of sky. Where is alove and joy that you promised me?
Tell me so right, I mostleave a power can stay fell from heaven

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side the shower. When I thinkcomes to better, I'm gonna beleave when
this is over. Even though Ican see I start that is working.
What you do I stop? Comeon so up down she hate to see

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it again down God's people so muchslave you smile so so ne. Every
day will be working, but it'sstill gonna me today. Don't have come
on today, but there is nosunshine, luck them account and it stuff

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in my heart and it feels likea cold night. It ain't easy.
But today you tell me if you'reabout side? Where is that? Love
is love and the joy that youpromised me tell me is all right?
The truth is most sleaya from Iknow we would hurt y'all. Come on,

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people so much that is around.Thank you so much for staying with
us. And just for anybody beforeyou found somebody listening and just what is
going on? Who is this person? Well for today I have and it's
just a yeah, small please callme and people saying all right? So

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when it comes back, wait said? And why you wait on? Yeah?
And why you praying? Look inthe mirror, always remembering I'm almost

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up. It goes power you difficulty, Yes, his dogs, This is
what I whateverels good because all thingsare working. Still I know smart.

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Right now you're winning something. Youlook better of us, tell us new
on something, coming to Cleveland,dejoying myself some jersey and all the people

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say some situation. I just don'twant you to be happy. I think
you got to have something happened theship. I want you to have to
know it, because I ain't nobodyfrom you. I said, you make
me smile. Letting go is notgiving up. It's just a way of

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finding a way. I mean,it's a way of finding a way to
come back stronger. Makes sense,Like it's a way of finding your way
to come back strong. So youlet go of it, like ignore it
a little bit. It's like ifthe last time I checked, you're you're
afraid of snakes? Are you?Oh? Yeah, I don't really.

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There's a mom in the highway you'rewalking right, okay if you want example.
But what I'm trying to say is, like the momber in the highway
in the highway, can we usethe cow maybe because you can just kill
it and eat it. That's differenta car is because okay, let's use

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a bumbe because yeah, something likethat, you let go, like is
find a way of going, likeyou know, just to be yes,
and then if you want to hitit, then hat it from behind.
Oh wow, So seach, whateveryou're going through, you let it go

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is a way of carving back whatstrong yeahs. Trust me. If any
situation, like the situation is lookingdirectly straight in your eyes and you want
to face it, sometimes just youknow, find another way and then you
come backet it the big face andyou kill it. Okay. In ephesions,
I mean Ecclesiastics three, the Bibaryis Ecclesiastics three for those who are

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writing down and those who wants towrite down. Ecclesiastics three, Verst.
Six. Bibari is a time tosearch, a time to give up,
and a time to keep, anda time to throw away. So situations,
the situation you're in, just rememberthat the Bible says there is a

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time. It's not going to bepermanent. Permanent. Smile like just like
the song, it's only for alittle world. I mean, smile smile
little and know you come back laterand you find it in a different way,
and you see, So let goof the things that you are not,

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don't know, let it go.Like if you're not the person,
you're not the person, right,So the other one is let go of
the need to be perfect. That'sanother way of helping me exactly. Trust
me, there's nobody would like evenme, I would want to be friends
with someone who's perfect. I mean, let go they need to be perfect,

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Like, there's nobody if you wantto be perfect too much personally to
eat you up. That's true.But some things like mistakes, are meant
to be happy and control. Youcan't, you see, So let go
of that needed I want to beperfectly this it's actually good to perfect.
I mean yeah, but nobody's perfect, all right, So just let it

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go and you find, like yousee foods out of it and touch those
things that you can. If thesituation you're you're going through is not exactly
end you just let it go andlet God have his way. Just give
it to God in prayer. Imean, if there's one gossip but that
I know it's God, you cango. You can gossips forever the situation

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my friends, this happened Daddy trussme and one thing good again about him.
You can go and gossip, butyou can't coming, you see.
So Another another point is a lotof the negative emotions to flow that is

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dead that is that is I'm sosorry for interrupting, but I think that
especially the aspect of allowing negative emotionsto flow, a lot of us suppress
negative emotions a lot because now wethink that I'm sinning because I feel like
I feel I feel like crying,so I'm sinning because I feel angry.

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So I'm sinning. But like weread early, it's okay to be angry,
but you cannot let the sun godown and keep that anger because you
feel a certain level maybe of bitterness, you feel like you're a sinner.
But I think if we're able toallow our cells feel these things and then
release them, that's where the healingcomes from. Exactly. Yeah, that's
where the healing comes from. That'swhere now the being able to now let

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go and look forward to something elsecomes in. Because if we suppress these
things, they keep on piling upand then by the end of the day
anatomic bomby but like a ticket time, like anything. Yeah, and we
won't be Nobody is going to beable to help you. When you let
all those things, you're going tohte a lot of people. That's very

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true. So let's let the negative. That's a shot. Yeah, allow
the negative emotions to flow right anotherpoint. I actually have a number of
points, but I'm just going tocut it off. Like you know,
there's actually a scripture in Isaiah Isaiaheighteen like form, what do I forget

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the former things? Exactly that one? Yea, okay, you forget the
former things. Do not dwell onthe past. Don't well what happened on
Monday. Don't dwell on what happenedon Tuesday, what didn't happen, what
didn't exactly? Thank you for that, you see. Do not dwell on

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the past. Just let it goand look forward to the unseen. There's
actually a saying I don't know exactlywhat said it. It says you can
let the bird to fly over yourhead, but you cannot allow you to
have exactly and then eggs and soallow whatever situation. No, like,

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why why am I saying situation?Like? I don't want you to put
like specific to say this situation,this situation, this situation. We are
our own profits, you know,whatever you're going through your situation, and
don't allow that's a bird. Don'tallow that bird to have like and you
know, and have its own littlebirds. You know, I mean the

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eggs and whatever. Don't allow thosethings to happen. That's true, that's
true. Yeah. So these arethe ways that I thought, maybe,
you know, I could share withpeople, share with you, find people
ways of letting go, Wow,thank you so so much. I think
if I can just maybe just readthem through point by point, because you

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really said a lot of things andthank you so much. But then for
anybody who wasn't able to pick uplike point by point, like the ways
of letting god looking forward to theand seeing. Number one is not to
take situations personal, because you arenot going through whatever you're going through alone.
It's not somebody else is going throughit before. So don't take things

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or situations personal. Number two,let go of things that you are not,
you know, let go of thingsthat you're not, Let go things
that people have put on you.Let go of the things that maybe it
could be parents, expectations of people, society. So let go of those
things that you're not and be you. The third one is let go of

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the need true, let go ofthe need to be perfect, you know,
And then with that in that aspect, the next one is allow the
negative emotions to flow. So letgo of you not wanting to feel things,
you know, exactly, So alot the negative emotions to flow,
and then the other one is ohthat's the last one. Sorry. Yes,

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so those are the main ones.A lot the negative emotions to flow,
let go, the need to beperfect, let's go things that you're
not, don't take situations personally,and be reminded that letting go is not
giving up. So basically, Ithink I've learned a lot, honestly,
And I don't know if you haveanything in closing or what you'd like to

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add on to what you have talktoday, you know, like just a
little advice. Is we we aregetting into the weekends. I would like
to know to say people allow thingsto come and go. Allow people people,
allow people to come and go,allow things to come and to go.

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Yeah, you always become You alwayscome back stronger or better. Yeah,
yeah, exactly. So Oh,actually this is saying it's easy to
get lost, but let yourself go. It's easy to be found. If
you let yourself go, it's easyto be found. So if you let

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things go, it's easy to getaway of I mean a solution. Yes,
so good people thrive, let goand let God have his way,
above all, you are an overcomer. Yeah, oh, thank you,

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thank you, thank you so much, so thank you for sitting down with
me and just sharing this beautiful,beautiful nuggets and letting go and looking forward
to the thing. So I thinkyou heard from my introduction for today.
We always have like you have totalk about two, three, or one
thing that you have thriven it duringthe week. So I don't know if

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you have anything, Yeah, youhave to say something, because really we
wouldn't want to give, like begiving what we're not doing something like that.
So I don't know if you canthink of anything that you've thrived at
maybe the past week, the pastdays. For me, I don't have
three. I'm still standing by mytwo things I've mentioned before. Number one,

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well, I started working out.Oh yeah, I started working out
and it's been a little over aweek now and I've only missed I think
two days, which of these twodays wasn't like intentional missing, but yeah,

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so I started working out and itfeels good. My body was hurting
the first three days, like terrible, it was tormenting, but I'm good
now. And then the second thingis I'm still trying to just explore on
the business venture that I think Imentioned the last time, and so far
it's going on well, and I'mjust grateful to God that is bringing up
ideas. So those I think arethe two major aspects in which I'm thriving.

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So over to you. Two three, one do you have any one?
Okay, I think I'm thriving.Like there was a time that I
was distancing from people. Yeah,I just didn't want to, you know,
even to talk with people I'm inback home or even here. Yeah,
but now like I'm coming back,like's not being too free, I

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mean, but being able to talkto people, not just you know,
getting things on my own. We'regoing to ask the reason after this,
so we don't. We don't.We don't want to go out there.
So yeah, thank you so much. And so this was it for today's
podcast. I hope you've enjoyed theconversation. If it does too chaotic,

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I'm so sorry, But I reallyhope that you enjoyed us here just talking
and me and the baggard just agreeing, you know. But I really really
hope that you've been blessed and youcan continue thriving regardless of the circumstances that
may be surrounding you, and sothis is goodbye and I'll be sunning up
with a song by Mendiza entitled Overcoma. Stay thriving. Even if it's the

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last day of the week. Thereis always room for improvement and you can
still meet your Gods your goals.So until next time, this is it
for today. Thanks for listening andstay blessed. Staring a lot of stuff,

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sign watching people you maybe going through. We need to let get the

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better John Off, stay in jacauseGod is holding you might be down for
a moment and gets hopeless. Andthat's when he redis you do everybody's been

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down the bottom, hit the ground. You not long. Just take a
breath, don't forget hang it tohis Bama says he wants you enough.
Ye come stay in the right downthe bonge because you holding You're gonna be

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down for a moment. See whenyou gets homeless, and that's when he
reminds you that you come the sameand the grand and the one woman coming
down. He's napping in so checkshold six your eyes on the one will

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holds your line. There's nothing hecan't he's telling ye. Staying you dan

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bone moment men, it's homeless.That's whinny renyxlase you that you go back,
go back, don't get no quickdon't get any quick. Game.

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Don over color, don over