Good morning everyone and welcome back to the Messy masterpiece podcast which had an

Tory happy saturday happy weekend y'all happy weekend to the weekend warrior

thanks for tuning in this is another one of those long form episodes where

we're going to be continuing the conversation from our Thursday YouTube video

which was getting through hardships going through hard times dealing with suffering and

again I think we just want to quickly preface that you know Tory and I are not pastors we're not

like counselors we have gone through our fair share of suffering some of it that's happened

out of our control and some things that we've actually gone through because of our actions and

so we just have some experiences but we just definitely want to be encouraging because

there's been so many people in our friend group that we know like like that we know very

closely that have just been having a really tough time lately and that's why we posted that video

on Thursday it's just it was you know it's almost like you can't help but let's talk about it

you know if we have this many friends that are this close to us going through hard times how can

we not talk about it because there's likely a lot of other people going through hard times

yeah for sure so we're going to jump into the devotional and then we're going to get

jump into a kind of like little Q&A encouragement on that topic and then we're going to continue

that conversation over on our patreon and there'll be a link in our podcast description for that

yeah all right let's get started with today's devotional y'all we're reading out of Romans 86

and the devotional is titled Holy Spirit Take Control it says so letting your sinful nature control

your mind leads to death but letting the spirit control your mind leads to life and peace

and that was Romans 86 the love letter from God says beloved child i am the living water for your

thirsty soul i am the truth that deactivates the lies you believe i am the power that you need

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