Welcome to
Celebrating Life in Recovery.
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I'm Cheri your host.
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Do you ever wish that
you could be different?
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Normal maybe, but just
can't seem to get there?
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Well you're not alone,
come join us as we look
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at how we can
take control of the
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things that are controlling you.
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In my devotions this morning,
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I was reading a portion
of the Pursuit of Holiness
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by Jerry Bridges.
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And the first story he tells,
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had me laughing out loud.
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Okay, picture this.
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Your in your
devotions, it's just incredible,
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you're quiet with
God, and all of the
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sudden the phone rings.
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And it's loud, it's
like a shrilling sound.
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And you pick up the
phone and it's one of those
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people I think
that God puts on the
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planet to test us.
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And he's arrogant,
he's angry, he's rude,
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and by the time
you get off the phone,
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you're just thinking poof.
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You are
resentful, you're enraged,
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everything that
you had worked at this
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morning is gone.
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I no longer feel peaceful,
I no longer feel anything,
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I just have to
get myself together,
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grab my jacket, get outside.
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I'm outside, and it's cold,
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and I'm like trying to
figure out where is that
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feeling that I had this morning?
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You know where is
it, where's that kind of
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calm and holy feeling.
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I'm connected with
God because it's gone,
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it's gone.
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Having laughing
out loud about this,
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is most of you that
watch the show know that my
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computer was just stolen
from the airport and so I
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had one of those moments then.
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I was prepared for these shows.
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I was in devotions everyday.
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I was so connected with God,
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you would have
thought I was Mother Teresa.
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I was just like, I
felt the Holy Spirit
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was just on me.
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You know I get to
the airport and I'm just
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feeling good and
then somebody steal's your
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computer and I'm
looking for a gun.
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How do I shoot that guy?
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Does he know that everything
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I own is on that computer?
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My daughter's wedding pictures.
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All the
outlines for these shows.
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Every ministry trip that
I just so loved is on there.
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And some jerk stole it.
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But it's all gone.
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It's like during those times,
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it's like everything
that is in you comes out.
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You know all the stuff
you thought you dealt with,
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do you know what I mean?
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Cause you know
that anger doesn't just
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fall off somewhere.
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It's in there.
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It just comes to the surface.
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And so we are going
to look at this show,
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this show is going to
be amazing because we are
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going to look at
how do you get a grip.
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So how do you get a grip?
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And I brought
somebody on this show,
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that is absolutely
changed my life in some of
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the stuff that he
has put out there and so
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we are going to come back.
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I'm going to introduce
you to Dr. Douglas Weiss.
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He is amazing, what
he is going to share
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with you is amazing.
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But do me a favor,
grab a pen and paper,
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cause some of this
stuff is going to come by and
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you are not going to be
able to really sit with it
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until after the show.
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I promise you if you
sit with this teaching,
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it will change your life.
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So come back, stay tuned!
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