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You don't decide what hand you will be dealt in life, but you decide how you will react to it.

Coming up today, Pastor Greg Laurie points out whatever trials or pain we encounter

can be a tool in the hands of God to make you into the person he wants you to be.

And here's the thing you discover in time.

Your pain can be effectively turned to gain because what you have gone through

was not designed to destroy you, but to develop you.

This is the day when the lost are found.

This is the day of a moment again.

I'm as you grace out with the stone.

But can you get away as you proceed?

This is the day the day we live.

Have you noticed how our perspective changes in life?

Some of us hated certain vegetables when we were kids.

And now?

Well, we may still hate those vegetables, but that's not the point.

The point is our perspective changes, right?

We eat vegetables because they're good for us.

Today, on the new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us realize that a

changing perspective is good evidence that we're maturing.

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