Welcome back!
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It is amazing to me the
way God has to step into
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our lives, and some of
our lives are so messed up.
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If you're not one of them just
stay with us on this segment
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because what I think is
amazing is I went through book.
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I do devotions every morning
and I grab different books.
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One of the books, that I
grab this morning, talked about
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there is a statue, 4
statues in Florence Italy.
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The statues are statues
that Michelangelo started to
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carve out of this
incredible marble.
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He was going to put it in
a tomb area for a tombstone
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for a pope that had
requested that was dying.
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So he was doing these
statues and Michelangelo says
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I can look at a piece
of marble and see the man
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or the woman, or the
angel or whatever it is trying
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to escape that marble, and he
said I just help them come out.
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Well he started
to do these 4 pieces,
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and they are big pieces.
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One is a man, one is a
woman, one is an Angel,
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and I can't remember
what the other one was.
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So he starts carving
them and then the pope decides
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I don't need them.
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And he is like,
are you kidding me,
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and so he just leaves them.
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They are on display and
they are called captives,
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They are captive in this stone.
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I really believe for all
of us, in our addictions,
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in our lives, and the
junk and dysfunctions.
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We are coming from places,
maybe not as much as Susan
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and Rich where you came
from, where you were stepping
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into Meth addiction, this
crazy subculture, and where
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your body is so incredibly
trashed, but some of us
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are from dysfunctional
homes where we don't know what
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it is like to be normal.
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I don't know what it's
like to be loved and we were
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so created to be loved,
so not to be loved we get a
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little tweaked so we
are like those statues.
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We are like those men and
women Michelangelo was trying
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to carve out, as we are
held captive in our junk.
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God, He is the Potter, right?
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He says trust Me with
this, let Me set you up and
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let Me step in as the
Sculpture, as the Potter,
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and let Me get you out of there.
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Some of it is easy, but
some of it is actually not,
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it's a little more subtle.
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So as He gets to those areas
I can't even see, some people
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call them our blind
spots, but our blind spots will
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keep us out of recovery.
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So some people calls
them our blind spots and as He
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gets to those areas
He starts carving that,
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or He starts molding
and moving that Clay around.
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It is that those areas
are a little bit harder and
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God says, you
don't do anything really.
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You are the stone, you
are the Clay, I am the Potter,
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I'm the Sculpture.
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It's easier for God when
we say that, I don't know
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what to do, I don't know
how to get out of this anger.
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I don't know how to
get out of this bitterness.
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God says, good
because I know how.
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Literally trusting God as
the Sculpture, trusting God
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as the Potter, that He
knows who you are and knows
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exactly how incredible you are.
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He says I will step
into your life and I will get
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all those things
carved out, I will get all
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those impurities pushed
out, and when you are done,
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oh man, man.
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I read another book that
God says I am particularly
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fond of that one, because
I think all of heaven says,
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I'm particularly
fond of that one.
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I love you, I love the
way you laugh, I love the way
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you think about things,
I love the way you love on
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the person next to you.
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The only way we actually
find out that about ourselves is
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to let God, and as God
to step in and teach us.
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When Susan and Richard
were talking about their daily
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walk, their daily turning
it over to God, to learn how
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to eat and drink and to sleep.
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I didn't know and
tell me if you knew this.
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I didn't know that
when you sleep you literally
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refresher your brain, and
if you lack sleep, fatigue
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itself stops blood flow
to your brain at a certain
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level that trashes it.
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The next day we wake up and
we're try to think straight.
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When somebody says I'm
in a mental fog, you are
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in a mental fog, it is true.
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So God says, not only am
I going to step into your
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life and literally
bring you out so that you know
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yourself who you are,
so you know and understand
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all the
incredible giftings you have.
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God doesn't just want
you to stop be in an addict,
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He wants you to start
being you because He loves you.
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Do you know what I mean?
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I'm going show you all
that kind of stuff and trust Me.
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You don't half to do
anything, I will finish the work
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that I start in you.
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I am faithful, I am
trustworthy, I know exactly who
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you are and I can't
wait for you to know that.
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If you are out there
and you are struggling,
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trust God is absolutely amazing.
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I'll just want to say
thank you for joining us.
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I hope you heard everything.
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I don't care if you're
hard-core Meth addict with no
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brain cells left, God says
it's not too far gone for Me.
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I'm God and I can
bring you back to a place of
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restoration and
I long to do that.
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I want you to know I was
thrilled that you were here.
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Until next time, always
remember that God is crazy
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about you and me too!
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