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there are so many days I wish I could go back and tell my younger self to just

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relax and don't worry about it. Have you looked at the news lately? Inflation is

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crazy. Have you been traveling and putting gas in your tank? It's insane

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what these prices are. And now they're talking about recession. What does that

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mean? That means all of a sudden the prices have gotten so high that people

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are gonna quit spending and then there's the recession anxiety. And you know we

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live through Jimmy Carter folks. We'll live through this administration. Hi my

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name is Leigh Ann Friesman and today I just want to remind you of some amazing

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promises in the Word of God. He is faithful and he will get you through

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this. Matthew 11 28. Come to me all of you who are weary and burdened and I will

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give you rest. You know I think a lot of times when you turn on social media,

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YouTube, you know what they want you to operate in fear and anxiety. Because why?

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Fear sells. They're selling anxiety. Well don't you want to know what's really

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going on? No. You know why? Because I know God is good and I know he's faithful and

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I wish I could go back and tell my younger self in my 30s and in my 40s

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would you just chill? You know you didn't know how you were gonna get your kids

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through Christian schools and you did. You didn't know how you were gonna get

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your kids through college and you did. You didn't know what you were gonna do

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about a wedding. It turned out just fine. All those things in my mind that I knew

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were gonna be a challenge and I was gonna have to walk it out by faith. I did

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it. And and so when I look to what's coming ahead that's how I'm gonna

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approach it as well. And you will too. And today I'm gonna share a lot of

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scriptures with you that you know somebody's probably quoted these

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scriptures to you and you've meditated on these scriptures but when you turn on

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the TV set you got to go back and remind yourself to some of these promises.

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They're just that good. Psalms 34 for I sought the Lord and he

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answered me and he delivered me from all of my fears. Well if you want to be

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delivered from fears then you're gonna have to seek him. You're gonna have to go

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to the Word. Psalms 94 19 when the cares of my heart are many your consolations

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cheer my soul. There are times when you have got to encourage yourself in God.

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You've got to encourage yourself in what the Word says. Doom and gloom is all over.

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Oh you know the fertilizer prices and oh meat prices and how many meat processing

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you know I think we've had what like over 90 food processing plants that it

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burned in America right now. Guess what? God's big enough. Maybe we'll all eat

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something else you know for a while until things get back on on on the

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ground. I'm not concerned about it because God always makes a way. Proverbs

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18 10 for the word of the Lord is like a strong tower. The righteous run to that

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tower and they are safe. Around the walls of Jerusalem are these high towers.

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They're the lookout places. They're the places that the army of Israel would go

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to to go up and and climb up and get a better view so that they could see the

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oncoming enemy. You know we all need to run to God. We need to run to his

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presence. We need to run to that place in him where we see things as he sees them

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and not meditate on what the world would want us to see. We want to see what's

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coming from God's perspective. There's a lot of frustration and anger in America

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right now and this is for my Bulgarian friends, my Israeli friends, my listeners

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in Africa and Nigeria and hundreds of people in the Philippine Islands.

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Americans are mad. Americans are upset and and they are they see what's

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happening. They know things are shifting and you know even though we might not be

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in a good place right now sometimes being in a bad place, I'm talking about

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politics and the economy or whatever else, sometimes being in a bad place

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isn't such a bad thing because why? It exposes

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what needs to be taken care of. And God is always looking at the big picture. He's

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always looking at the long haul. He's always looking at his kingdom on earth

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and that this gospel will be preached to the entire earth and then the end shall

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come, right? Well, we have a tendency just to think about our world and in our

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circumstances. We have to make a choice to see things from God's perspective.

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Philippians 4, 6, and 7, don't be anxious for anything, but in every

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situation by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, thanking God, present your

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requests to God and the peace of God that passes all understanding will keep

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your heart and your mind, right, in Christ Jesus. We're in a season right now where

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you have to make a decision to keep your mind, your thoughts, your thinking

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on him because he's just that good. You can make a decision to focus on

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inflation or recession, or you can think about how God has always supernaturally

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provided. Finally, my brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is

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worthy of respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,

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whatever is commendable, if something is excellent or praiseworthy, think on those

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things. Excellent and praiseworthy. There's so much stuff going on in the

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news that's not even real. You don't even know what is real anymore, right? But

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you can make a decision to shut all that off and focus on his goodness and his

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provision. Go back and rehearse your victories. Remind yourself of the

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supernatural things that God has brought you through, and you too can walk in

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victory over fear, inflation, recession, and anxiety. Guys, it isn't the fear or

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the anxiety that's your problem. Your problem is your reaction to it. Thanks

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for listening. Please like and subscribe and share this. We're very close to

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help us go over the top. Have a great day, and thanks for listening.