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Live Free with Josh Howerton

Envy is Exhausting | Ep. 361 | Monday, June 24, 2024

Live Free with Josh Howerton

Lakepointe Church

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Envy fuels stress and anxiety and ignores all the good gifts we have. A good idea would be to encourage others, let them go first or celebrate someone else's success. When we turn our eyes away from ourselves, we truly begin to win. For more information, visit lakepointe.church/dailydrive

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0:00.0

Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive.

0:08.6

When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

0:15.2

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

0:20.6

For more digital content to feed

0:22.9

your faith, visit lakepoint.combe.com slash daily drive. And now let's dive in to today's devotional.

0:30.1

Hey, happy Monday, everybody. Hope you had a great weekend. Welcome to the Daily Drive. My name is

0:35.4

Bro. And we are currently sneaking a peek at an old man's

0:39.4

journal in which he reveals five easy ways to wreck your life. The man is a king named Solomon.

0:47.3

The journal was called Ecclesiastes, and you don't have to sneak a peek. It's, you can find it

0:51.3

right in the middle of the Bible in the Old Testament section.

0:54.8

And we left off last episode with Solomon saying,

0:57.7

If you want to wreck your life, then just let success consume you.

1:03.1

And we talked about how you and I can let our performance define us, and we all can do that.

1:08.2

I mean, I have personally had to wrestle that one to the ground.

1:11.7

And with the help of the Holy Spirit, I've been able to win that battle more consistently.

1:15.5

But when I was much younger, I would come home from preaching, and my wife Debbie would ask me how to go.

1:20.8

I'd go, oh, man, it was not good, or I was really awkward when I said this, or I fumble over my words,

1:25.9

that story I told did not connect at all.

1:28.8

The joke totally bombed. But you know, it's okay because I think most fell asleep anyway.

1:34.1

It was all about my performance. And then I heard Dallas Willard talk about the same struggle he had

1:40.3

and how when his wife would ask him, how did it go? He started saying, I don't know yet.

1:46.3

I don't know yet. And that response began to really help me see that it wasn't about my performance.

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