Hello, I'm Creflo Dollar, and this is the Creflo Dollar Ministries podcast.

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builds your faith, and above all else helps you to understand grace and empowers you to change.

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The book of Psalms, chapter 34, and verse 17, Psalms 34, and verse 17, I begin to recognize

something, and this is something that's social very important. It's the fact that we are living in a

broken world with a whole lot of broken systems. We are living around a whole lot of broken people,

and there's just a lot of things that are going on that we need to understand. And so several weeks

ago, I began to minister to you on the subject of brokenness and how we need to begin to overcome

brokenness. And I got some things I saw people were saying, well, I'm not broken. Well, I got to

make sure you understand that no one makes it through life avoiding brokenness. And that just

said to me that a lot of people just don't understand what brokenness is and what brokenness is all

about. You know, I've broken pencils in my life. I've broken Christmas ornaments when we used to put

the little ornament on the silver tree and dropped it and it broke. I've experienced broken

promises. I broke my collarbone one time. I've had broken friendships. I've had broken dreams. I've

had a broken heart. And I felt fevers break after being on my body and after shivering and since that

that my will. I've seen that broken after long internal struggles. I heard tensions and few

silence break. I've heard soft and gentle or loud or angry voices break. You see, there's a whole

lot of ways to be broken. And from our souls to our fingertips, brokenness is woven throughout all

of our human experiences. And so the meaning of brokenness and the Bible, it's deep and it's rich.

It's varied but closely related to all sides of things that are going on. And yet I don't want us

to get to a place today where we are using brokenness as like a cliche. Some people use the word

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