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

I want to thank you for joining us today and I sincerely hope this word encourages you,

builds your faith and above all else helps you to understand grace and

empowers you to change. Enjoy the message. I'm about to talk about something

that I don't have to ask you to raise your hands, maybe you don't know it. about something

you to raise your hands, maybe you don't know it, but everybody in here at one

time of another has been impacted and affected by something called approval addiction.

To be this kind of addict could derail the very call of God

that he is placed on your life.

It can also cause mental health issues.

It can cause you to be so focused on the wrong thing that you find yourself at a place in

your life where you're ready to end it all. Those irritations, those fear of rejection, the depression, the heaviness that most of us carry.

It's rooted in this deal of being addicted to approval.

Your teenagers suffer grossly

if they're not getting the approval necessary through social media,

through the number of likes and so forth.

That I have come to recognize that our society is a society filled with a bunch of addicts that are

addicted to validation and to approval.

My text for this morning starts off with showing you a man who did that.

First Samuel chapter 15 in verse 24.

And in First Samuel chapter 15,

this is a story where Samuel gave a Samuel to destroy and to kill everything.

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