Yay, you're here. I'm Lisa Whittle, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, affectionately known as Joe, a short practical podcast where we will not be perfect, we will be honest, and we will talk a lot about Jesus along the way.

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The Word of God in our ears that can be incredibly important right now

for a lot of lives all over this world. I'm so excited to talk to you today from my heart. So many

of us have been affected by COVID-19, from our work and income to the emotional toll it's

taken to lives of people we know and love that have been lost.

It's been so hard in so many ways. And one thing that happens when something like this

hardships on a widespread basis, when something like this occurs, is that we normally think

of ourselves and how it's affected us. Now, please hear me. I'm not

shaming us in any way by any means. I'm relating to that and telling you that it's human nature

to think of our immediate situation. But what God calls us in times like this is just something

higher. It's a kingdom focus versus a self-focus.

So I want to challenge us today with a few questions in light of this. First of all,

and this is something I want us to personalize. We're talking to ourselves here. Have I,

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