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.

I was talking to a girl the other day who had had a break up in her relationship. As she was so

disheartened, she said that she thought this relationship was on the right track. She thought that it

could even be headed towards marriage. And then one day, he came to her and he said, I'm taking a job in

another state. When she was so discouraged, she thought, what's happening? When she began to think

about how he could leave so quickly, it began to demoralize her. She thought, wow, I'm not as

special as I thought I was. I guess he didn't love me, like I thought he loved me. She said, I began

to dwell on these thoughts, and I became more discouraged. She said, you know, it was just really

just trying to make sense of it all, trying to figure it all out. What happened? What did I do?

She said, I got to the place where I didn't even want to go, hardly go to work. I certainly didn't

want to go out with any friends. I found myself just staying at home a lot. And she said, one evening,

I turned on the television, and I saw your ministry. She says, I began to listen and listen to the messages.

I began to regain a sense of who I was. She said, I began to become encouraged again.

She said this that I thought was so good. She said, I realized what I had been doing was I had been

so focused and so attentive to what had happened to me that I wasn't understanding what was

happening in me. She said, I had been so hurt. I have been so discredited. I felt so all along.

And what was happening to me was causing what was happening in me to totally destroy my life.

She said, I didn't want to do anything. She said, and as I became encouraged, she said that

discouragement left in how rose. She said, I literally got to the place where I could look myself

in the mirror and like myself again. She said, little by little, she said, I'd get up in the morning

and I would look in the mirror and she would say, you are beautiful. You are talented. You are

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