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God works in our life towards spiritual maturity.

He loves you too much to leave you alone.

Pick your pain.

The pain of change or the pain of never changing.

I think we need to fall flat on our face a few times because I don't know how in the world we ever have any humility developed in our life.

If everything we always do always works out perfectly right and we're always strong.

We need to trust God in everything that happens in our life.

The Lord is my shepherd. He is a good shepherd.

He never leaves me. He keeps one eye on me all the time and you.

Let's look at Genesis 28.15.

If this scripture doesn't comfort you then I would not know what to preach to you tonight.

I would be at a loss for words and that says a lot.

And behold, I am with you and we'll keep you.

Watch over with youth care.

Take notice of you wherever you may go.

And I will bring you back to this land for I will not leave you until I have done all of which I have told you.

How many times in my life have I had to open up to that because I was so discouraged about the dreams and the hopes that I had for my life and nothing seemed to be happening.

And I will tell you what, you need to fight the devil with the word of God.

When you feel like your mood is just sinking down into the pit, don't just try to get happy.

Go get the word and learn enough of the word to know what parts of it to go to.

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