Hello my friends it's time for the morning mindset again. I hope that's what you're

looking for my name is Carrie Green we are here to get our minds aligned with the truth of God's word.

I want to start today by telling you a little bit of a story.

My son and I, my oldest son, and I, years ago, started building a greenhouse in our backyard.

We were just convinced we were going to be able to create this massive garden

that would provide for his family and my family and all this kind of stuff.

And so we did, we built a greenhouse we we put goat manure in the soil I mean we

got it already and we planted all kinds of stuff. Now here's the crazy thing some things

grew really really well and other things just didn't grow.

And it was a very frustrating thing and what we discovered was you have to amend the

soil in various ways for various kinds of foods to grow and all kinds of things,

but that non-growing garden was just such a frustration and a difficulty to figure out.

Now the reason I'm talking to you about a non-growing

garden is because there is a deadly danger for us as Christians when we are not

growing. Today we're going to look at Ephesians chapter 4 verses 11 through 13

to get into that but before we do I want to ask you if you do me a little favor.

Would you consider pausing this episode right now and using the sharing functionality on your

podcast app to share this episode with somebody who you think might benefit from the morning

mindset just as you have? That's a very simple way.

You can make an eternal impact in someone else's life by sharing God's word with him today.

Okay, before we dig into Ephesians 4, let's pray. We're going to ask the Lord to guide us as we understand what he's written to us in the passage.

Lord God, we are grateful that you've given us your word, it teaches us so much, and today I ask that you would teach us

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