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Hey man, thank you for being here today. We appreciate you and we love you very much.

I want to just encourage us today about maybe recommitting to some of our former commitments or making new commitments.

Commitments to those things that are very important to your life.

Things that are going to cause you to walk in a greater freedom, a greater accomplishment, greater joy, and greater victory.

You see, to walk in these things, you must be committed to these things.

Anything you want to accomplish is going to take a commitment.

Sometimes people are afraid of commitment. They don't want to be obligated.

They don't want to be disappointed. Sometimes we like to keep our options open.

Maybe there's a plan B later on we'd rather choose.

But I bet every one of us could look over our life and we could see through our life that the things that we truly committed to,

the things that we were all in on, wholehearted. Those are the things we're enjoying the most right now.

You know, sometimes I've made a commitment but it's been a one foot in a one foot out.

Well, I hope it happens. It's a wish anyway. That's not the way a commitment has to be approached.

We have to decide commitment is something that is going to cause us to gain in the long run.

See, commitment means obligation, determination, discipline.

See, to make a commitment is going to cost you something.

You're going to have to focus on it. You're going to have to have a plan.

You're going to have to be determined.

In fact, you have to serve your commitment.

You see, you have to serve your commitment for a time and eventually that commitment will serve you.

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