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Hey there, I'm Christine, and I'm so excited to welcome you to the Equip and Empower podcast.

Now, my prayer is that our time together each week encourages you,

awakens you to the purposes of God in your life,

and activates you to follow Jesus wholeheartedly as you live on mission for him.

I am so glad that you've joined me today. I'm believing that God's going to speak to you through

His word and that you're going to be equipped and empowered to fulfill your God-given purpose.

Growing up, I was the middle child, the only daughter. I had an older brother

George and my younger brother, Andrew, and we would often play catch inside with a tennis ball.

And one day, I threw the ball at my brother, George, really. And instead of hitting him,

it hit my mum's prize vase and it fell and shattered on the ground. Now, I knew I was going to get into big trouble

if my mum found out. So we all made a pack, the three of us together, and we promised and

Pinky promised each other that we would never tell. Well, my mum had barely walked through the front

door coming home from work when my older brother

literally just threw me under the bus before she even saw the vase. He's like,

Christine did it. Anyway, he broke his promise to me and I was shattered. And when I confronted

him, he said, Christine, I had my fingers crossed when I made the promise so it really didn't

count. Well, the truth is I think

every single one of us have had some kind of experience where people have broken their promises

to us or perhaps we've broken our promise to them and about things that are a lot more serious

than a broken vase when I was growing up. But the truth is that broken promises tend to

erode our trust. The good news is that although we know that people do break their promises,

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