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devotional podcast now here's pamela to get you fired up for all god has available for you

today well good morning beautiful welcome to a brand new day of life. Happy Tuesday, my friends. I am coming to you

from the shores of North Bali in the jungle. It's absolutely gorgeous. We woke up this morning to

roosters crowing at 4 a.m. And it's just such a beautiful day of life. I'm excited to help

you get your day started right. The title of today's episode of the Big Life devotional podcast is

counting steps. How many steps did you take yesterday? I bet you counted them, didn't you? You know how many steps you took

yesterday, but my question is how many of them actually counted? Have you ever been walking or jogging or

hiking and you realize that you forgot to start exercise tracking, and then you feel like what you did

didn't even count because you weren't tracking it. I think about that for a second. That's kind of

ridiculous, isn't it? But we all do it. Like, oh, no, those steps don't count because I wasn't

tracking. Well, you're likely more mindful of your steps now

than you've ever been because of your watch that tallies up all your steps each day.

But let me ask you, do your steps count? You're counting them, but do they count? Psalm 37, verse 23, says, the Lord directs the

steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. I love that scripture so much.

That would be a great little memory verse.

You can memorize that today. The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail

of their lives. Do you know that's true? That's absolutely true. He directs your steps.

Your steps are directed. The average person takes over two million

steps in one year, and that's a lot of steps. The question is, out of those two million

steps, you're faithfully recording on your watch every year, how many of those steps

are in line with God's steps? When God created you, he had a plan in mind for you, a blueprint for

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