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.

Today's podcast is sponsored by Cunningham Financial Group. John Cunningham is a friend of mine and a brother in Christ, and he can help you with financial

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He's been a big help to me and my family, and I commend him to you.

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

Hey, welcome back. You know how thankful I am that you're listening today. So look, I am not a planner by almost any means. I lay out the schedule for the day,

maybe the week, and that's it. Every week, the sermons are whatever the Holy Spirit presents

to me in the word or the results of some conversation, and the podcast pretty much runs

along that same line.

Except this week, there are already a few ideas that are coming together to share with you over the next couple of Mondays.

Next week, if the Lord is willing, we will talk about how to start evangelistic conversations. We will look at some of the art behind that and also some practical things you can do to make sure that you are confident and you are ready.

And speaking of confidence, the week after that, if everything comes together, all right,

I want to talk to you about a very

unexpected way that I have been able to gain more self-confidence in my life, and I genuinely

believe that it is a pathway that you already may be on or could easily begin. So those are a

couple of things that were on my heart that I was praying about today,

and I wanted to let you know about them, mainly because I'm now locked in to fulfilling that

plan over the next couple of weeks.

So maybe a little personal strategizing there.

All right.

So today's topic is know what ifs, which is a song by Christian

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