The following program
discusses sensitive issues
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related to addicted behavior.
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Parents are
cautioned that some material
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may be too candid
for younger children.
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Welcome back.
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You know, Fran,
I just have to say
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I was just blessed
having you on the program,
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but before we went on
break I asked you a question
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and the question
is why work so hard?
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This is a ton of
work and you were fine,
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in everybody's eyes
you are okay, in your eyes?
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Yeah, even in my own.
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Except that there
was a thirst inside
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like it was feeling empty.
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And also I was
beginning to realize it,
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that there were
people who needed something
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that God had apparently put me
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in a position to
do something about
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and I wasn't able to give
it because I didn't have it.
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An example was, I'm
working with a friend
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who came out of
the gay lifestyle.
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We're working on
writing her story
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and of course, that means
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she has got to
share very deeply.
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And she at one
point stopped to me
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and said that, she
didn't feel safe with me
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because I was invulnerable.
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Wow.
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She didn't even
say a need for you,
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that you don't have a
need to, you don't have a--
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Yeah, and so it's
not safe to talk to me.
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Well, to me that was just
like how can God even use me
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if that's the case?
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Something had to
change. That's powerful.
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And at the same time
that that was happening
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you were dealing with
you know, what is this mean
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and what are you trying show me,
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what is this whole thing about
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approval and--
and vulnerability.
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Yeah, and the deeper He takes me
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into this the more I'm realizing
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how much need I really have.
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So anything else
you said that was one?
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Yeah, God is clearly
communicating to me about this.
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Like, He gave me--
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I don't really had a
couple dreams in my life
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that would--
sure it came from Him.
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But one was this dream about
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this beautiful
white tropical flower
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and I watched it open
up and I looked inside
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and it's filled
with this putrid mess.
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And it was clear to
me that He was saying,
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we got work to do.
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Wow, that's powerful.
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Because you even said
that and with the Pharisees
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you were like while whitewashed
tombs with dead man's bones
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and I really
believe that sometimes
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we look at
Pharisees as a-- as incredibly
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just bad folks or damaged
folks or arrogant or whatever.
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But I think that they
were doing the best they could,
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learning, doing the right
thing all of that kind of stuff
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and I'm seeing them
in a whole different way.
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What if they just
didn't know how to connect
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and they didn't-- like Fran said
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they didn't understand
what the blood of Christ
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actually meant
in their own life.
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And so if you have an
approval addiction, workaholism
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that you've been trying
to perform your whole life,
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take it to God because He says,
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"Absolutely you don't
have to work so hard."
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And remember that He is
crazy about you, me too.
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See you next time and I pray
that this program blessed you,
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because I know
that it blessed me.
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Addiction is
addiction is addiction
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and God wants us free.
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