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Paul said in Galatians 110,

am I trying to win the approval of human beings or of God?

And boy, that's a good question to ask for self today.

Are you trying to please people?

Or are you trying to please God?

Well, thank you for joining us today on this show.

I believe that when you really make the word of God a priority in your life,

that you will enjoy your life much better.

Because God's Word teaches us the things that steal our joy and the things that add to it.

You see, I really believe that God wants us to be authentic.

And the world we live in today, there's a lot of phoniness and a lot of pretense.

But that's not the way God wants us to live.

And sometimes there's a lot of pressure put on us to do things that we really don't feel like we should be doing.

And we end up not living authentic lives because we spend our time trying to please other people

rather than really doing what we believe God wants us to do.

So today we're going to talk about being set free from people pleasing.

Now that doesn't mean that we don't want to please people, but it does mean that we can't live to please people

if we're not pleasing God or if we're actually going against our own heart.

Self rejection leads to people pleasing.

When we don't accept ourselves, we assume that other people won't accept us either

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