Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.

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I am so thankful you're here, so let's get started.

Today's message and the things that I genuinely feel compelled to share with you, I consider to be very important.

In fact, I would say these first few minutes of content seem to me to be more vital than anything

I've had a chance to record this entire season.

Ultimately, as we get to the midpoint and back half of today's episode,

I want to talk to you about what it means for you to walk in love.

What does it mean to walk with care and consideration for others, even when they aren't so love? What does it mean to walk with care and consideration for others even when they aren't so lovable? And also, what does it mean to walk as light in a world so filled with darkness,

where those dark spots can show up in places where you never thought that they would,

what has God called you to do in your walk?

We will be referencing the book of Ephesians because it is there in the second half that we are

told to walk in a manner worthy of the great calling that we have in Jesus, and

that will involve walking in love and as light.

But first, I need to share some things.

I'm not sure who it is, who is listening today, who needs to hear this, but someone does.

And maybe that person isn't you, but it probably is.

God loves you.

God cares about you. God cares about you.

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