Welcome to Set Apart Daughters, a proud member of the Converge Podcast Network. Hey, beloveds.

Welcome back to the Set of Heart Daughters podcast.

We will be empowered and encouraged and equipped to become the woman that God has

created you to meet.

I'm your host, Denise Copeland.

I'm so happy that you're joining me on this week's episode.

I hope that your week has been going well despite the challenges that you may be going through.

And if you're celebrating something this week, congratulations, God is good.

It's always amazing to, you know, weep with those

who weep and rejoice with those who are rejoicing. And this week, I wanted to touch on being set

apart from approval seeking. Now, we know that approval seeking can be very dangerous, right?

It can be a very dangerous trap.

And before I even tap into approval seeking, I want to share with you just a short story

that you can actually find in my new book, Set Apart.

If you haven't ordered it, it's called Set Apart, Stop Comparing on Your Giftedness and Rest in Jesus. And in one of the chapters, I talk about called set apart stop comparing on your giftedness and rest in jesus and in one of

the chapters i talk about being set apart from approval seeking now in this chapter i sure a story

about um my parents coming to town now each year my dad comes to celebrate one of my son's birthday.

So in this given birthday, it was Aiden's birthday.

That's my firstborn.

And we were getting ready to celebrate his birthday.

He always comes from Florida to Oklahoma to celebrate his birthday.

And you guys, when it's only a week away from him coming over to celebrate Aden's birthday, it's a big deal to me.

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