Rick's Personal Life Pruning Season

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I told you in this morning's snippet podcast that I would have one for you today.

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Hey, welcome to Renewed Mindsets, where we study the basics of the faith through the lens of our middle-aged experiences.

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I'm Rick.

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Welcome to the show where I help you, gen Xers and Millennials, navigate spiritually through a world that looks nothing like we expected back, when cars were square and mullets were totally awesome.

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I am so glad you're here.

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Well, I told you I'd have a show for you and I do.

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I'm glad that you came back to listen.

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This is a little odd.

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I'm just going to talk to you a little bit today.

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We've been together for months, right?

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You know a little bit about my life.

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You know things that are happening and going on.

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And I've just hit one of those places and you're my people and I needed you to pray for me and you on.

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And I've just hit one of those places and you're my people and I needed you to pray for me and you did, and I actually had a really great rest of the day.

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In a nutshell, in a nutshell in a nutshell Tuesday at about 3.30 in the afternoon, I got laid off from a job that I've had for 13 years, right in the middle of a time in my life where I'm probably as vulnerable as I've ever been.

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But I'm in the best place I've ever been at.

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And you wonder why is this happening now?

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God, have I not been faithful?

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Do I not pray enough?

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Am I not in church every time the doors are open?

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Have I not been tithing?

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Have I not been experiencing you and your Holy Spirit in ways that I've never experienced it before?

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The answer is yes.

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I have done all that, and so it's really weird that the Holy Spirit has given my pastors so much information about all of us at church.

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So much information about all of us at church, but the one that hit this weekend was talking about pruning of branches.

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John 15.2 from the New Living Translation says he cuts off every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.

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Prunes the branches that do bear fruit, so they will produce even more.

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Well, that job, which was made for me, that job served me well for 13 years and I did a great job for them for most of those 13 years.

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We won't get into the whys and the hows it's really not any of y'all's business and I don't need to speak disparagingly on a company but I was beginning to not be able to produce fruit based on that job be able to produce fruit based on that job.

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I noticed, and it was brought to my attention, that I had a lot of pride when it came to that job and I'm not talking about the good kind, I'm talking about the pride that I was showing was something I needed to get rid of.

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I thought I knew better.

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I thought that I had more business running that business than the people that bought the business did.

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So it was time to leave.

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I believe that God did move me and he pruned that branch out of my life.

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And as I look back on the last eight months, nine months of my life, so many things that I had carried with me into this season.

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He's gotten rid of Things that were super important to me Really in the last two years, things that I did.

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I mean I sold my house and bought an RV and I've been living in an RV since January of 2024.

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Sorry, 2023.

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Man, I can't even keep my time straight now.

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People thought I was nuts, but you know what God really pushed that on me.

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I thought it was for a specific reason.

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It ended up being not for that reason, but I still see God's hand in it.

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And what kind of panic would I be in right now, having lost my job, if I had a mortgage?

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Right, I've talked about identity before on this podcast.

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I've talked about identity before on this podcast.

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I needed to be reminded that my identity is not in my job.

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My identity is not in my girlfriend or fiance.

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My identity is not in my friends or the house that I live in or the car that I drive.

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We need to be reminded that, whether or not we have a job, that whatever work that I did, I was God's child.

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And now that I've lost that job, it's a lot easier to see that right.

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But this experience has made me rethink the idea of job security.

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You know, back with you know we're Gen Xers.

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Our parents maybe had it, but our grandparents for sure had a job for life.

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If they wanted it, they could have started working at 18 and stayed there until retirement and got a nice watch and got a nice pension and moved to Florida and lived happily ever after.

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You know we're not doing that.

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That's the fairy tale.

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Now CEOs are getting fired on the spot, people are getting reshuffled.

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You're losing work colleagues all the time.

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It's all about deadlines and the bottom line and working too much.

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And then a few years ago, you know we've seen how the entire economic sector could wither overnight, like it did with COVID and all the international travel and the gatherings were restricted, and tourism the tourism industry came to a standstill.

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Businesses had to close.

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A lot of people lost their jobs.

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I didn't.

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I was able to keep working through all that Physical work.

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It wasn't online, it wasn't Zoom calls.

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I had an opportunity to work and continue making money where a lot of people had to go on unemployment or find other jobs or just do without.

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So I need to be thankful that I had it.

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For that I'm going to try really hard to not have anxiety, which is not from God.

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Anyway it's fear and there's really no reason to be.

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I'm 56.

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I'm not married.

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My kids are grown.

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You know, the hardest part is accepting that it happened, but there's nothing really that I could do about it.

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I wasn't going to change their mind.

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There was some nice benefits for me leaving.

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I wasn't fired.

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Change their mind.

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There was some nice benefits for me leaving.

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I wasn't fired, it was just a layoff.

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But you know, again, the reasons are not important.

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But it's still tough thinking about being 56 and starting a new career.

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I don't want to be the bottom of the rung of the ladder again.

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I don't want to learn something new.

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I thought I was at a position where I could just skate on through right.

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God always has something else planned, but we need to find comfort and hope and assurance in God and not that job.

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Psalm 121, verses 1 and 2,.

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The psalmist turns his eyes heavenward because he knows that God is the only person that he can look to and rely on in times of trouble.

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It says I lift up my eyes to the mountains.

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Where does my help come from.

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My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

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And then it goes on to take heart that God will not let our foot slip because he's watching over us day and night.

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So if you've experienced a job loss or know anybody who may be at risk for losing their job, it's comforting truth that we can rely on completely is knowing that God is watching over us all the time.

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We can take heart in that God is still in control, and when our well-being is threatened by external factors that are outside of our control, god remains good and faithful.

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He's there in our darkest moments and though we may not always sense his presence, he's there.

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Our identity is not our job.

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Our identity is not in our job.

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Our identity as Christ's beloved child means that we're not defined by what we do.

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Even when we're stripped of our possessions or our career, our achievements, we're still cherished and valued by God.

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He loves us just like we are, and we need to remember and I need to remember one of the hardest parts about losing a job is money.

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Right, I mean, I was pretty blessed for 13 years to be able to just buy what I wanted when I wanted to.

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I feel really foolish doing that now.

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I wish I would have saved more of it, but I didn't, and that's fine.

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But we need to remember that money serves us, not the other way around, and the Bible has so much to say about money and stewardship.

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So this, to me, is a good time to think about planning ahead financially, is a good time to think about planning ahead financially.

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Until I figure out what's going on, I need to hold back on spending where I can.

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I'd like to have a new car, but I'm not going to do that right now.

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I might have to cut down on some of the discretionary spending.

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I love my friends and family.

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Maybe when we go out now we, all you know, pick up our own checks Not that anyone ever asked me to do that.

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I always liked doing it.

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But a wise man saves for the future, but the foolish man spends whatever he gets.

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I may have been a bit foolish as a man who has a podcast about Solomon and his wisdom Wisdomforthedayorg.

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Proverbs 21.20,.

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Wise man saves for the future, but the foolish man spends wherever he gets.

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My only excuse is that I'm only on chapter 14 of Proverbs in that podcast and I haven't hit 21 yet, so maybe I didn't hear that.

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Yeah, that's not going to fly either, is it?

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You know what I do have?

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I got a really nice text earlier.

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I'm going to read it.

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Some of y'all know who it's from.

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In a nutshell, it just says I'm sorry you're being pruned right now.

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You know you're not alone.

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God's got you and you have all of us now.

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We love you and we're praying for you.

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That comes from the executive producer of this show, yelena McClellan, and her husband Chet and their kids.

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That's something that I didn't have when I started this job is I didn't have a community.

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I didn't have my church family.

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I had my family, but we're all kind of going doing our own thing and you know we love each other, but I didn't have the community that I have now.

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I didn't have the community that I have now and I don't have to walk this journey of being jobless alone.

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My Christian life is rooted in community, which means that I can turn to friends in church to stand with me in prayer, to listen to my struggles, to encourage me to keep going when things get tough, because the fear that I have in not having a job is not being able to be a good protector.

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That I have In not having a job Is not being able to be a good protector.

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There's another text that I got from someone and it says Good night, sweetheart, I love you.

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And that one is the hardest for this, because God protects those who trust in him.

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God is sovereign and he watches over his children, and he protects us because he loves us, and we may experience hardship as a result of living in a fallen world, but though we might be struck down, we're not crushed.

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2 Corinthians 4, 8-10.

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No one who hopes in God will ever be put to shame.

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Psalm 25, 3.

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Let us hold firm to the Lord in quiet confidence and trust.

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I want to be Sorry.

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Probably shouldn't be clearing my throat, but, like I said, this is a little bit different one for y'all.

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My prayer for myself in this time is Lord, help me to remember that my identity is in you.

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My identity is in you, father.

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God, I trust that you will provide and help me through this difficult time.

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Your word says that those who hope in you will never be put to shame, and remind me that, even when I have a job, I work for you and not for men.

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So what he has for me is yet to be seen.

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What I have for you my Renewed Mindsets family is my reassurance that my commitment to this podcast has not changed.

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I will continue creating content and preaching God's word and teaching God's word, just like I always have.

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Really, there might be more of it who knows but right now this is the job that I have.

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Unfortunately, this job doesn't pay very much to the supporters that I have.

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Thank you, you're $5 a month.

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It is really going to mean a lot here.

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Is this a plea for help?

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Well, let's go ahead and just say what it is.

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If you feel like you want to support this ministry, know that it's going to help.

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Support me right now.

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I'm not trying to buy a new car.

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I'm not even trying to put a roof over my head because my RV is paid for.

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But, lord, if you just help me get a pack of ramen noodles once a week, we could all chip in for that right.

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I'm just kidding with y'all.

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I love you as much as I'm going to lean on God in this.

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I'm going to lean on you.

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I'd like to hear your thoughts on it.

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At the beginning of this podcast you heard.

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If you just go to the show notes, you can click on the first line of the show notes and send a message right to me from your phone.

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I'd love to hear from you Anything encouraging that you have to say prayers.

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I honestly would love it.

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I got lots of time now this is really going to be one of the best things.

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I think one of the best things that's ever happened.

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Hmm, so what do y'all think?

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I met somebody out there listening.

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It's like man.

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I wish I could hire Rick.

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He would be a great employee to work remotely for me.

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I mean, you do not receive because you fail to ask, right, what is the scripture there?

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It's you don't have what you want because you don't ask for it.

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James, chapter 4, 4, verse 2.

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And verse 3 says even when you ask, you don't get it because your motives are all wrong.

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You want only what will give you pleasure.

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It's kind of sad Because a lot of the prayers that I've had over the last few years have just been about wants, not needs, but wants.

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And God is so good he gives you your wants.

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I've got a want right now in my life.

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That was a gift from God that I do not deserve.

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So God is so good.

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I just need to remember that my identity is in him and I need to turn to him and put my faith in him and everything's going to work out.

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And I don't want to sound like I'm trying to convince myself here.

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This podcast may have been a little bit of therapy for me, just to get on and speak out loud the truth that I know to be.

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I'm going to cut it short here because you don't need to be listening to an hour long therapy session of mine.

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It's about 22 minutes to an hour-long therapy session of mine.

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It's about 22 minutes.

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By the time I add the intro and the outro, it's going to be a perfect length for you.

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I love you.

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And Renewed Mindsets is here to stay.

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It's here to stay Through thick and thin.

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This show is part of the new.

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It's not part of the old.

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This job was probably the last part of the old.

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Rick and God's pruning all that off.

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So my new church, my podcast, the new woman in my life we just had to get rid of the job.

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It was part of the old.

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We'll get a new job and then everything will be fresh.

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I want to personally thank Thomas and Kelly Belcher and Christy McCurry for all listening to the Holy Ghost and having the same scripture come up in their teachings for the last week, which is all about something that I needed, which is all about something that I needed.

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They all came up with their lessons for Sunday and for church tonight on Wednesday night before I lost my job on Tuesday afternoon, but what they had to say is exactly what I needed to hear.

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So I heard it Sunday before it happened and then I kind of heard it again on Wednesday after it happened, from another angle, and I think that's great.

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I think that's confirmation that this is just a pruning in my life.

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This is not a punishment.

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This is God just getting rid of a part of me that doesn't need to be in the future.

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So I'm excited to see where he goes.

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Stick with me.

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You'll see where we go.

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You'll be part of that journey.

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If you're with me, you'll see where we go.

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You'll be part of that journey.

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We're reading through the book of Proverbs started six months ago.

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We're into the 14th chapter.

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Matter of fact, what I record in just a few minutes will be the first two verses from the 14th chapter of the book of Proverbs.

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But you can catch up or you can start in the middle, but after a year you've been through the whole book.

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Kind of a cool concept.

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It's an easy listen.

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Kind of a cool concept.

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It's an easy listen.

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It's a good way to start your day with some wisdom from the wisest man ever, solomon, and I'd appreciate your support on that.

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I love you.

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I'll talk to you soon.

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Well, that's all for this week's show.

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You know the name of this show speaks my hope for you.

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It's taken from the words of Romans, chapter 12, verse 2.

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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing, you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

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If you enjoyed what you heard, do me a favor, please, and tell someone you know about it.

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Send them a link in a text you know you may even need to download it to their phone and show them what a podcast is.

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If it was valuable to you, it will be to them.

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Visit renewedmindsetscom to hear past episodes, read the blog and check out the new merch.

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And, as always, while you're there, send me a voicemail by clicking the button at the bottom right corner of the main page.

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Tell me what you think about this show.

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I just might play it on a future episode.

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Until next week, I'm Rick, I love you.

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I love you, see ya.

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The executive producer of the Renewed Mindsets podcast is Jelena McClellan.

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The associate producer and spiritual advisor is Kimmy Shirley, special music by Weston McCurry.

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And a shout out goes to the supporters of the Renewed Mindsets podcast who have memberships over at buymeacoffeecom slash renewed mindsets.

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Slash renewed mindsets, christy.

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We have supporter Karen and Jennifer.

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Thank you all so much.

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You didn't realize how important your support was until right now.

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Thank you.

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The intro and outro music for the Renewed Mindsets podcast is Are you Ready?

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By Floodgate From the album Are you Ready?

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Copyright 2002, offbeat Ministries Incorporated.

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Floodgate can be found on Apple Music and iTunes Music used with permission.