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Hi, I'm Leigh Ann Friesland and this is Restoring Word.

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Have you ever messed up bad?

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I have.

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And a lot of times it was because of my flesh and whatever's in my flesh or what I'm going

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through or what I'm thinking, it's going to come out my mouth.

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Why?

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I haven't renewed my mind and I don't have a lot of self-control.

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You know, we're not perfect people.

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We're going to mess up.

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I mess up all the time.

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But what helps me the most is when I go back into the Word and I renew my mind and I kind

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of adjust my life and my heart and I get myself back on track.

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Just a little devotional for you today that I hope will help you adjust your heart and

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get things back on track.

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Psalms 37 31 the instruction of his God is in his heart and his steps will not slip.

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Isn't that good that you've hidden the word in your heart so that what you don't goof

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it up.

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Man, I need all of that that I can get and I don't ever want to goof it up.

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My heart is to do the right thing.

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My heart is to make the right decisions and to walk with Christ and to be a witness and

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to be a loving, kind, patient, spirit-filled person.

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But I am not going to be able to do that ever unless I renew my mind and go back into what

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does the Bible say.

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You know, we really have to look at the Word of God as our baseline in everything and then

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judge ourselves based on that.

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I see this really big when it comes to worship leaders because worship leaders can get very

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arrogant and egotistical.

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Why?

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They're on the platform, everybody's looking at them, everybody's, wow, you've got a beautiful

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voice.

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Oh, that was an incredible set.

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I really enjoyed worship today.

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You're just so anointed.

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I love you.

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Okay.

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You know what that can do to a worship leader that doesn't have his or her flesh under control?

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It just puffs them up.

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And the problem with that is especially if you put somebody on the platform that isn't

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able to handle that kind of attention at a young age, they're going to get arrogant and

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then eventually they're going to be humbled.

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Have you ever stepped on a platform and forgot lyrics?

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Have you ever stepped on a platform and you're like, oh my gosh, I know that chord progression.

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What is that again?

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And you're standing in front of hundreds of people looking like an idiot.

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Yes, I've been there.

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Okay.

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It's all right.

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You just keep going.

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I think it's one of the things that as a musician, it's always kept me very humble because I

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always knew that things didn't come naturally for me.

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I had to work at them.

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And because of that, I always stayed humble because when I was humble, his grace always

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covered me.

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Okay.

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Proverbs 30, starting in verse five and six, every word of God proves true.

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He is a shield to all who come to him for protection.

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Do not aid to his words or he may rebuke you and expose you as a liar.

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Okay.

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You are to come in here and to look at the word of God as your shield and as your protection.

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God is my protection.

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He is a shield to all who come to him for protection.

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If you're humble and you really love God and you really want to make it with him and you

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want to be successful in the kingdom, I can tell you who he's going to promote.

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He's going to promote the humble.

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He's going to promote the broken.

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I'm convinced.

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Do you know why I successfully built the program I did?

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Why?

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Because I knew I couldn't do it without Jesus.

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I didn't have a lot of natural talent or ability.

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I had to really hustle all the time to make it happen.

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I was willing to acknowledge and get out of God's way.

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And that's why he used me.

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There's a lot more skilled people out there that probably could have done ten times the

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job as me.

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But here's the problem with musicians.

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Musicians are arrogant and they think it's all about them and they're wrong, okay?

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Especially as worship leaders, you have to be balanced as a minister first and then as

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a musician second.

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And if you do that, you're going to get promoted and God will use you.

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you. Scripture will transform your life. If you are humbly seeking Him and you're in the Word,

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the Word will change you. Romans 12 verses 2, do not be conformed to this world, be transformed.

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How? By the renewing of your mind. Okay, renewing. Okay, that's an action verb. Okay, guess what?

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It never ends. Never. You're never not going to be renewing your mind. And man, I notice it like

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in the middle of the school year and I've got to-do lists and I've got IEPs I've got to write

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and I've got a cranky parent and I've got an irritable person I'm dealing with. I can get

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really short and I don't like that or I can get really salty or impatient with someone and I

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don't want to do that. I have to go in there and I have to renew my mind. I have to transform

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my mind and I get I have to do it all the time and I can tell you on the mornings when I go to

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the piano and I pray and I worship and I get in there and I transform my mind. I have 10 times

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the day. I mean just things fall in place. I have favor with leaders. I'm very loving and very

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patient with unloving, unpatient people. Walking it with Jesus is so much easier than trying to do

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it in your flesh but you're always going to have to be doing it. No one ever arrives. I don't care

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who you are. I don't care what your title in ministry is. I don't care how long you've been

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in ministry. You don't care how long I've been in ministry. You don't care. You know what? It's not

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impressive. That's flesh. You know what's impressive? Self-control. You know what's

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impressive? Peace. You know what's impressive? Integrity. Yeah, trust me. That's impressive.

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This is a great reminder for everybody. Matthew 5, 6. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst

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for righteousness for they shall be filled. I want to be filled with the righteousness of God.

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I want to be filled with grace. I want people to say, man, I love her. I just love

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calling her and talking to her. If you ask God for righteousness, not for sin,

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you're asking God, God, I want you to fill me with you. If you'll ask him for that,

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he will give it to you and you will walk in a blessed life. And there's many blessings out

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there and many bonuses for doing that. This is Romans 15, 4. Whatever was written in the past

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was written for our instruction. So the Bible is really our instruction book for life, okay?

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So that we may have hope through endurance. You know what I'm impressed with when it comes to

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Christians anymore? People who are still going at it. People who haven't given up.

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People who haven't gotten bitter or angry or haven't gotten discouraged or, you know,

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so-and-so is doing this and so-and-so is doing that. Who cares what everybody else is doing?

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What are you doing? How are you living? How am I living? Am I still slugging away at it?

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Am I still walking it out with him? Am I still trying to make a difference? Okay,

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I'm enduring to the end. I'm running my race. I am not giving up. In fact, right now at this

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point in my life, I want to run harder than ever before because I realize as I get older,

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and especially as you watch a parent pass away, your days are numbered. Make them count.

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Make every day count. Romans 15 again, so that we may have hope through endurance,

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through the encouragement from the scriptures. This is where your encouragement comes from.

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If you will just open up your Bible. I keep looking at this. My Bible is here. This is

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an old Thompson chain. My Thompson chain changed my life on the front porch of my house in Sioux

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City, Iowa. This is where it started. What happened? Encouragement from the scriptures.

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Studying topics that I need at this moment.

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You know, it isn't helpful to study something when it doesn't apply.

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to what you're going through right now. What's helpful is when you study

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something in the Bible and that's really what's going on in your life. That will

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change everything. Why? Because this is what encourages you to live well. To live

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really, really well. I want to thank all the people who have so graciously loved

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me through the loss of my dad. Thank you for notes and cards and likes and

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private messages and phone calls and just little comforting things that say

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hey Leanne, I understand how much you hurt and it's it's okay. This too will

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pass. Daddy's in heaven and it's okay. Thank you. It means the world. It means

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the world. Please like and subscribe and I hope that we can meet together again

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soon. Have a good week.