Welcome to Transformation Trash Podcast.

We are so excited you tuned into our Damage Good Series,

where Pastor Mike Speed's on How to Respond When Life Happens.

From wherever you're listening, we hope you are encouraged by this week's message.

The reason that I'm doing this series called Damage Goods is because after Easter,

I usually want to do a series that speaks to everybody.

A series that will let people know no matter where they're at in their life,

that God can still use them.

I'm looking at a room full of people that I would dare say have not reached their fullest potential

because an area of your life has been damaged.

Now, it's usually we don't talk about this area.

It's an area that nobody really knows about until you get real close to us

and they can see the effects of it.

For many of us, it happened when we were young, we got damaged in an area,

and it's so normal and so a part of how we act and what we do that we don't even notice it.

And the sad thing is, is that because we're damaged,

because there's a part of us that was impaired or ripped or fractured,

we never move with the full confidence into our purpose.

If I went around the room and asked how many people are living in purpose,

the hands would not be as great as they should be for believers,

for people who know of God.

And it's because this is probably one of the least talked about things in our church history.

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