Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.

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I'm so thankful you're here, so let's get started. Hey, welcome back. So today, let's jump right into the title.

I want to talk to you about where you are. I'm interested to know how

you assess emotionally the state and condition of your life as it is in this exact moment.

Maybe the best way to do that is to just ask you a few questions. So first of all, how are

things going? When you look at where you are

right now, what is your attitude about that? Now, there's no question that if you and I were sitting down

and you were really pouring out your bucket on what your life is like, you would list both positive

and negative things, at least I'm assuming. You could tell me about

things that are going well, about strong relationships that you have, maybe a deep, abiding

sense of purpose for your life. And of course, you no doubt could tell me about issues with your

health or someone you love, or maybe a few things that haven't gone your way.

Everyone's life is like that.

But when all of those pieces come together to make you, today, exactly in the life you're living,

how do you feel about that?

Do you feel a lot of shame or regret?

Do you feel like your life is not what it could be or should be,

and so it's not good? Now, certainly, if you are outside of the graces of Jesus Christ,

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