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wherever you get your podcast. So these are the three things that I wish I would have learned

sooner as a believer. I recently, this past month, March 30 is turned 23. And so as I kind of been reflecting on

this past year, I've really asked myself, okay, what are the biggest things that I've learned

that I kind of want to give to other people that may be walking with Christ in their early stages

or maybe have been walking with him for a while that I feel definitely can help. I started following

Jesus whenever I, it was in 2018 of August, my life was radically changed. And so I was around

16 years old. I can't do math right now. So I have no clue. But it has been such a journey. And

trust me, this has not been like a perfect steady and or like progression of

I've always been on fire and walking with him, but I've always found my way back home. And even

through the moments when I drifted the way, I've learned so much from it. And he's used it all for

my good. But before I get into that, let me go to introduce myself. My name is Darren Starks.

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But getting into this first lesson, which I think is something that a lot of a struggle

with, I always was paralyzed by really trying to wrap my head around what the will of God

was for my life, especially whenever I was in high school and stepping into college and my adulthood,

I was asking the question of, okay, what does he want me to do with my life? What is my purpose?

What career should I take and or what job should I step into so on and so forth?

And not that wasn't a noble pursuit, but what happened was it left me paralyzed to the point

where I didn't do anything because I thought the will of God was like the straight, narrow

line that you were kind of like you were walking on and if you take like one step off,

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