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Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?

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Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, my salvation.

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Psalm chapter 42, verse 5.

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In this past month, we learned to speak truth to our souls when fear shows up, and today

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I want to take that same practice and aim it at identity.

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Look what David does here.

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He doesn't ignore what his soul is experiencing, maybe what he's feeling in his internal world,

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but he doesn't let it lead him either.

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He acknowledges it.

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Soul, why are you cast down?

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And then he speaks the truth to his soul.

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Hope in God.

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He talks to his inner world instead of being talked to by it.

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And you can do the same with identity.

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When the old narrative starts playing, when something inside you says, I'm not enough,

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or I'm not qualified, or I haven't really changed at all, you don't have to agree with

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it.

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You can speak back.

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I am a new creation.

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I am one with Christ.

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I am chosen, adopted, and accepted.

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The verdict is in, and it's not changing.

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That is not positive thinking like the world does.

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That's the spirit-led light that scripture calls us to.

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It's not a life where you think less or you feel less, but a life where truth leads the

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way and it leads your whole cell to wholeness.