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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 Friday, my friends. Gosh,

it is so good to get to be alive today and get to help you start the day right. Well, after yesterday's

devotional, I received a lot of messages, a lot of messages of kind of how God is speaking to you about the thing that you've been

waiting on and the thing that you're frustrated with and God's telling you, hold on,

trust me in this. And I felt like this morning would be the perfect time to take a break from

our study of Romans and talk about our thoughts.

Because I know when we are waiting on something, when we're frustrated, when we're kind of like,

God, I trust you. But oh my goodness, when are you going to do something? Our thoughts can kind of run wild.

So this devotional is for you today.

The title of today is Jesus, Help My Thoughts.

The key to you having a good day or a bad day today is not in the weather.

It's not in your circumstances.

It's not in the actions or the moods of

others. Did you know that nobody can make you have a bad day? Nobody else can do that to you.

The one key to your day is all in your head. Your thoughts write the definition of this day. Your thoughts are either lifting you up or they are

dragging you down a dark alley to beat you. Your thoughts are either highlighting all that is good,

right, working and coming together or they are underlining all that is bad and wrong. Have you ever tried to reason

with a 13-year-old boy or a 17-year-old girl? After having raised a few kids, I've discovered those

seem to be the key ages for both. It's at the point of 13 in a boy's life and about 17 in a

girl's life from my experience that you thoroughly understand why some animals eat their young

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