Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the Morning Mindset. I am very grateful that you are

taking the time right now to get your mind aligned with the truth of God through the

study of His scriptures. This is vital. His truth is what serves as our compass, our true

north in life, to keep us walking on a path that is in alignment with His will. I'm so

proud of you. So thankful that you're doing that today along with me. Today we're going

to be talking about the ability and the responsibility we have as believers to make our needs into

our allies. Now, that may sound a little contradictory. Let me illustrate here for a moment. We have

this nonprofit platform we've set up called not a needy person. You can find out more about

it at not a needyperson.org. And there you will find a number of needs, many of them

very serious, where people have submitted a concern in their life, a situation that they're

in, where they need help. I think if you go over there and you look at the various needs, you'll see

there are all kinds of things there that we could very well find ourselves in. In fact, some of us

have probably been in similar situations that you find there. And I want you to stop and think

about what your feeling is when you are in a circumstance like that, where you've lost a job,

where you've just moved out of an abusive relationship, where you were behind on your bills for

a lot of different reasons, including medical and health and issues like that, where someone in

your family is, is on the verge of death and you're, you're all behind the eight ball financially

because of it. What is your feeling in a moment like that? How do you typically think? What is

your attitude? What's your demeanor? Many times it's a demeanor of helplessness, a demeanor of

hopelessness even, and an attitude of just kind of wallowing in it. And I don't mean that in a

in a bad way. I just mean you feel like it's just all over you. It's just consuming your life

and you can't think about everything else. You can't sleep. You can't eat well. Your own health

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