Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe God has amazing

things in your future. I hope you enjoy this message.

My friend had foot surgery and the doctor told her that she would have to stay

off of her foot for about a month. So after a month of recovery, I saw her and immediately I wanted

to know how is your foot. She said to me, I'm now going to physical therapy. And then she began

to tell me a little bit about her physical therapy sessions. And she said to me, when I first

got to physical therapy, my therapist said this, does your foot hurt right now? And she stopped and

said, no, I'm not in any pain right now. And she said, she looked right at me and said, if you're

not in pain, why are you limping? It kind of took her a back for a minute. And she said, well,

I'm trying to protect my foot. I don't want to hurt it again. I don't want to do anything that

will cause me any more pain. Can you understand that line of thinking today? I certainly can.

You know, when you're in pain, the last thing you want to do is start acting like you normally

did. The last thing you want to do is step out and bowl this. The last thing you want to do is go

out on a limb because you certainly don't want to hurt yourself again. That physical therapist looked

at her and she said, I need you to quit limping. She said, if you don't begin to do and walk like you

normally do, your foot will not strengthen. Those ligaments will not go back in place and you won't

be able to do what you want to do. You won't be able to walk like you did before. You'll always

walk with a limp. I just want to encourage every one of us to not allow pain, hurts, discouragement,

to cause us to walk with an emotional limp. Pain comes to all of us. Discouragement is a part

of life, but we have to understand that God is bigger than all of those things combined.

You see, my friend didn't even recognize that she was walking with a limp. She had to have

her therapist tell her. You see, what she had done is she had formed what the Bible calls a strong

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