Good morning friends. Welcome back. It is time for the morning mindset. We're

still here at the very beginning of the year, lots of things ahead, and it's my desire that the morning mindset goes with you every single day of your life.

If you haven't done so yet, please do what you can to build the morning mindset into your routine.

This is about habit.

You want to get in the habit of setting your mind right every morning.

You want to get into the habit of putting yourself in a place where you can walk in alignment with the plans of God for your life

because you're thinking in alignment with the way that he thinks.

That's the main goal of the morning mindset.

This morning I want to point out something to you that I know you know about but you

may not have noticed and that is that we live especially in the Western world.

We live in a culture where our value is drawn from what we do.

Now none of us would say that, but look deep in your own feelings in your own soul.

And I think you'll easily recognize that when we do not have something to do that we feel is significant,

when our lives seem to be filled with kind of humdrum or mundane things,

we tend to start doubting our own value.

I remember a time when I was unemployed.

I was searching for the type of job that I really wanted to do, the thing I had been

trained for in my college studies, and I felt that when I was able to do that I would be significant. I would be contributing something of value to the world.

And in the meantime, while I was searching for that

job and while I was working part-time jobs to put food on the table and to provide for my

family I felt that I wasn't doing much of value and therefore I wasn't of much

value. Does that sound familiar at all? I'm sure you've all

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