When You Stop Holding Back | Pre-Decide: Part 5

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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🗓️ 6 February 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever feel like you'd be happier if you could make a little more money, buy that car, or land that job? The Bible tells us it's more blessed to give than to receive. (Acts 20:35) But how is that possible? And how do you stop holding yourself back from being generous? We'll find out in this message.

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0:00.0	I read an article that was written in 2007.
0:05.9	We're talking way back in the olden days, 2007.
0:10.8	This is before Instagram, this is before Netflix,
0:14.3	originals, this was before the cash app.
0:16.9	How did we live?
0:18.0	This article written in 2007, told us that back then
0:23.0	we were exposed to believe or not,
0:25.1	about 5,000 advertisements every single day.
0:31.9	On any given day wherever you go,
0:35.4	you're followed by ad after ad after ad after ad.
0:40.1	In the year 2007, you saw about 5,000 ads a day,
0:45.7	fast forward to today, and the number of ads
0:49.4	you've seen is actually doubled
0:52.1	with the advent of social media and bloggers and influencers.
0:56.0	We see around 10,000 advertisements a day,
1:01.0	which honestly is not great news,
1:04.6	because studies show the more ads we see,
1:09.2	the more miserable we are.
1:12.2	Because every waking moment we're reminded of
1:15.8	what we don't have, but what we think we need
1:18.4	in order to be happy.
1:19.9	And the pervasive message of most ads is that
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