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Has the enemy ever come and tried to steal your joy after you got your miracle breakthrough?

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Well that's what we're going to talk about today.

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Thank you for joining a Restoring Word.

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This is a short little motivational devotional to help you walk in grace and peace with Jesus.

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My name is Leanne Friesman, and I'm starting out of 1 John 4, and I love this scripture

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because it says, Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see

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if they are from God, because many false prophets are going to go out into the world.

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And this is how you can recognize the spirit.

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Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.

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But every spirit that does not acknowledge that Jesus is not from God, this is a spirit

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of antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

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You dear children are from God and you have overcome them because the one that is in you

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is greater than the one who is in the world.

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So many times we are walking on this faith journey with Jesus and something will come

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at us and immediately it produces fear.

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Okay, stop right there.

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If something is producing fear in you, do you really want to listen to it?

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Now some fears are healthy because they help preserve you, but some things or some comments

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or observations that people will throw at you is really just something that's there

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to steal your joy in the breakthrough, the joy in the victory that you have in walking

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it out with Jesus.

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You know, we are all on a journey and everybody's journey is difficult and different.

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And comparing what one person is going through isn't fair to compare that to another person.

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The first part of our journey is the learning phase.

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We're learning about God.

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We're learning about the kingdom.

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We're learning who we are in Christ.

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And then we begin to renew our minds.

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And then as we do that, we go into the growing phase where we're growing in love for him

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and we're growing in love for his word and we're growing in sensitivity to the Holy Spirit.

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And then we get to cross over into the third phase, which is really the becoming phase.

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We become more like him.

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We become more like Christ.

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We become more peaceful.

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We become more loving.

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We become more patient for we are going from glory to glory.

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And that glory, that never, that never ends.

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We are always in that journey.

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We're always in that process.

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And you don't want to, you know, not treasure that process because it's important.

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But every once in a while, you'll have someone that will come along and you're on your journey

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and you've just gotten a miracle and it's been a breakthrough.

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And somebody comes along to, you know, speak fear over it.

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I'll give you an illustration.

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So this last year, my daughter had twins, boys.

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And I cannot tell you how long we prayed and we believed God for this miracle.

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And we were so excited.

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And then, oh my gosh, we found out it was twins.

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And it was like, our cup runs over, God, you're so good.

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There isn't just one baby, there's two.

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And then on top of that, we found out it was boys and that was even better.

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And it just got better and better and happier and happier.

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And then someone would say some crazy comment to my daughter, like, oh, are you ready for

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that?

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Or, oh, do you think you can handle that?

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And, you know, in the middle of that, here we are, here she is in the middle of her miracle

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and someone comes along and they're just going to throw cold water on it.

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It produced fear.

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And you know what?

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Fear is not from God.

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If God calls you to do something, if he's supernatural.

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blesses you with a miracle blessing.

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Don't let anybody steal your joy.

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Don't let anybody rob you from the joy of the journey.

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Let me tell you, there is gonna be grace for these twins.

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There's gonna be grace and provision and wisdom

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and everything about this journey is going to be joyful

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because we know that these little miracles

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are our blessing.

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They are our reward.

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That's biblical.

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I can't tell you where exactly it is,

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but our children are our reward.

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Careful that you test the spirit

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because right now in the world, we have a lot of fear

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and a lot of negativity

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that's coming from every direction.

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You know, it's just not of God.

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Trust him.

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Trust that you'll have wisdom

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in whatever he's calling you to do.

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What is the Lord asking you to do

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at this season in your life?

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Does it feel bigger than you?

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Does it feel overwhelming to you?

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Does it feel like I don't know if I'll have the provision

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or the strength or the wisdom to walk through this?

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Well, there's one thing about having walked

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with the Lord a little bit that you learn from

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and that I have often found that when I'm exhausted

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or when I'm broken and I don't know what to do

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or I'm exhausted in my job

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and I all of a sudden have to have supernatural strength,

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it's in those moments where I've been able to humble myself.

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I've been able to call out to God.

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I've been able to say, God, your grace is sufficient for me

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and I can do all things through Christ

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that gives me strength and I'm gonna depend on you.

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And then when I do that, then what happens is

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I've invited him into whatever stressful,

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overwhelming thing I'm walking through

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and I know that I'm gonna get through this

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because he's in me and because of who's in me,

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it's greater than who's in the world

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and I can walk victoriously.

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I can walk successfully through whatever

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he is bringing my way.

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Man, if you've got a promotion, enjoy it.

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If you have a new spouse and a new season, enjoy it.

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If you're walking into a financial blessing

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that is just beyond what you could have ever imagined

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or thought, enjoy it.

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If you're walking through a trial

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that maybe you just don't understand

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how God's gonna use it, enjoy it

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because it's in the process that you become more like him.

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It's in the process that you are growing

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and you are becoming and you're learning

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about his goodness and his provision

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because he is a good God

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and his plans for you are for good.

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Thank you for listening.

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might need to be encouraged today.

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Don't let the enemy rob your joy.

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Have a good day.