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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.

Amazing grace, that's where the stone again you can't only act just a scene.

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. And today we'll see how we can embrace and enhance

that maturing process.

This is the day the day when life begins.

The title of this special message is, what I would tell my younger self.

What would I say to a young Greg as an older Greg? What advice would I give myself?

What things would I tell young Greg to avoid? What things would I tell young Greg to do?

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