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Hello, my friend. Thank you so very much for joining me on another encouraging word podcast.

Today, we're wrapping up our series on thought management. And if you've missed any episodes,

I encourage you to back up and catch up.

But here's the big idea,

as found in Ephesians 4,

verses 23 and 24.

Let the spirit change your way of thinking

and make you into a new person.

I wonder if you would imagine with me an old chair that's found in the shop of a carpenter.

It was on a junk pile, but the carpenter spotted it and thought, you know, I can do something

with that chair. There was a time that the chair occupied a noble spot in someone's home, but that's

before one of the pieces fell off. Some of the paint is beginning to thin it's not real sturdy

and so it was discarded until the carpenter saw it he saw not only what it was but what it could be

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