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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'm particularly excited about today's message because we are about to purge our spiritual

closets and we are going to get to wear some of the new clothes that we've had in there in our

closets but maybe we haven't even tried them on yet or we new clothes that we've had in there in our closets, but maybe we haven't even tried

them on yet, or we've forgotten that we even had our closets full of these clothes because

they were just like buried under all of our old familiar, comfortable and faithful clothes.

Now, Nick and I have got two gorgeous daughters, Catherine, who's 22,

and Sophia, who's 18, and I love my girls with all of my heart. But I've got to tell you,

I am flat out scared to go into their rooms and to look inside their closets. Now, I think I may

have failed as a parent because my girls do not seem to believe

that coat hangers actually serve any useful purpose in life. Now, in fact, in their thinking,

they think, Mom, why would you hang anything up in your closet when you can just add it to

the pile on the floor, which I'm sure

is soon going to surpass the height of Mount Everest and get into the Guinness Book of Records.

But anyway, when I've dared to venture into their closets, and my youngest is just about to go

to school in Paris, so I am in her closet trying to purge everything. Well,

the amazing thing is I found clothes that I bought them at some point. And lying under all of the

piles of those clothes on the floor are the clothes that I brought them. I mean, some have even got

their labels on them. And I'm like, you know, why is this on the bottom of your closet under all of the piles? And the best I get is like,

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