Hey everybody and welcome back to I just want to talk about the Bible.

If this is your first time joining us, then let me just welcome you and say that I'm very glad that you're here.

My name is Christian Keeter and I live in the southeast of the United States of America with my amazing, beautiful godly wife Lacey and our two

wonderful daughters, Felicity and Serenity. So I hope that 2023 is going well so far for you guys.

You know, this is a time of year where people set a lot of goals and list out the things that they

like to see happen in the upcoming year because, as we know, a lot of goals and list out the things that they like to see happen in the upcoming year,

because, as we know, a lot of stuff can happen in the course of a year.

And what we're going to talk about today is something that will most certainly happen

in the course of this year as in every other year, whether we plan for it or not.

And what that is is we will experience pressure.

We will experience internal pressures and external pressures.

So thanks so much for listening to this episode.

If I just want to talk about the Bible, I'm just kidding, obviously.

No, I know it's not necessarily the most encouraging way to start an episode, but if you do what we

talk about today, if you apply what we're going to talk about today, the biblical principles we're

going to see, then these pressures can be handled and navigated in a great biblical way that will actually bring you closer to the Lord and teach us to abide in him in an even better and stronger way.

So like I said, these pressures can be internal or external, and frequently they're both, but not necessarily always. Sometimes

there are things that would be like external pressures, actual circumstances, but internally

we're at peace. And you know, that's, you could call that peace amidst trials or something like that.

And then the inverse is sometimes true. Sometimes there's this internal pressure where

there's nothing externally actually happening and it's

largely imagined or hypothetical and we just call that anxiety but a lot of times they go hand in

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