Unashamed

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thank you, Jesus.

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All right, everyone,

welcome back to I Can.

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He Can.

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This is episode 12 I'm so happy

that you guys are here and you

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are listening if you're on your

way to work or you're at work.

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I hope that you guys have a wonderful,

wonderful day and blessed week.

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I know that it has been.

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Quite, quite the journey of emotions that

we have all gone through in the past week.

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Um, there has just been so much

going on, so many opinions,

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so many things in the news.

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But you have to remember, after

the storm, there's always sunshine.

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And that is exactly what we saw.

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honestly, I didn't wanna be another

person talking about Charlie.

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But I just feel it in my heart that

I didn't have to speak specifically

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about him, but I wanted to speak

about everything that he stood for.

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And yes, he stood mainly for

his faith, but he was unashamed.

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He was unashamed and he spoke fiercely.

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And strongly about everything

that he had in his mind.

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And the best part of all is

that it was for everyone's good.

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There was no malice.

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It all came from a place of

love, and it came from the exact

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same place that Jesus spoke.

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To his disciples and to all of the

people that were around Jesus at

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that time from a place of love.

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So today I just want to speak about

being unashamed first of all, of who

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you are, what you believe in, and second

of all, to be unashamed of your faith.

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Even if you are new to Christianity, I

still consider myself a new Christian.

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But just be unashamed.

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Be out there.

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And one of the things that

Charlie was, was very bold and

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Jesus was the boldest of all.

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He did not care to whom he was

speaking where he was speaking.

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He said what he had to say,

but he said it all lovingly.

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And that is the most

beautiful part of that.

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Now, this past week,

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I heard this scripture from two

Corinthians and it's chapter four,

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verses 17 through 18, and I'm gonna

read it to you and then I'm gonna

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explain why that stood out to me.

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So it says for this light, momentary

affliction is preparing for us an internal

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weight of glory beyond all comparison

as we look not to the things that are

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seen, but to the things that are unseen.

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For the things that are seen

are transient, but the things

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that are unseen are eternal.

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And again, that was two Corinthians

chapter four, 17 through 18.

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When I heard that the first time,

what stood out to me was, the things

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that are seen are transient, but the

things that are unseen are eternal.

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the first thing that

I thought of was love.

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Love isn't something that you see.

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Love is something that you feel

deep in your heart and you can see,

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all these wonderful gestures, um,

people being romantic and flowers

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and whatnot on social media.

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But all of that doesn't really matter.

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What truly matters is the

feeling behind those actions.

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So.

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It got me to thinking even further,

and I was like, wow, sai, everything

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that has been so important to me in

life wasn't something that I saw.

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It was something that made

me feel joy, happiness.

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I felt love.

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And for example, when I had my children.

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that's a joy and a feeling of happiness

that no one can ever truly explain.

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Same thing, like I said, with love.

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If you are in love, You can't

describe how much you love someone.

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You just know in your heart

that that's the way that you

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truly feel about that person.

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How about when you reach a goal,

that feeling that you have.

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It's amazing.

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And you want that all over

again, time and time again.

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so when I read this scripture in

two Corinthians four, 17 through 18.

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Everything that we see, everything that

we have, those things are transient.

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Those things will come and go.

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'cause one moment in this season, we

can have all of the money in the world.

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And then our next season, you

know, something can happen

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and we don't have anything.

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So They're just tangible things.

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And I feel like I, I said in the previous

episode that the day that we pass, we are

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not going to take any of this with us.

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We could only take our loved ones

if they've also accepted Jesus.

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We need to.

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Make sure that we are making

the most out of every day, We

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are feeling that happiness.

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We are feeling full of life and love.

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And that's how I feel

when I do these podcasts.

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Honestly.

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I love sharing them.

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it's those kinds of small things that are

going to fill your cup and bring you joy,

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and we need to focus on those things,

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That's what we have to hold onto.

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today's episode, I really don't wanna

make it too long because I honestly just

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wanna jump into my Bible and I wanna do my

21 day devotional that my friend Isis put

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together, my heart really just wants to be

in the word, and I never felt like that.

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It doesn't mean that I don't wanna do

the podcast, but I feel that we have

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all had so much on our hearts and on

our minds this week that the only thing

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that I really wanted to make sure that

I made crystal clear in this episode is

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that we can't be ashamed of our walk.

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Now, this isn't to tell you

go out and have a conversation

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with every person that you see.

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Of course, that would be an amazing thing,

but not everyone is ready to hear it.

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I know I was not ready to hear

about church, to hear about God.

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And then one day he

just tugged at my heart.

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He used my son to get me to church, and I

went and I was truly ready to receive it.

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I needed it.

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God knew that I needed him.

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And you can be that for another person.

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But it can all start with

a small conversation.

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It doesn't have to be perfect timing.

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It doesn't have to be this huge planned

out version of what happened to you.

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You could be honest and just say,

Hey, I listened to this one song.

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You know, maybe you'll like it.

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Maybe you'll find something

comforting in the words.

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Or, Hey, this is what praying did for me.

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It brought me comfort.

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It did this for me, it did that for me.

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Or, Hey, you wanna go to church with me?

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It can be the smallest thing.

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Walking with God doesn't

have to be complicated.

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Walking with God is something that's real,

and it's not something that is transient.

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It's something that comes from your heart.

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That's when the Holy Spirit continues

to work in you day in and day out.

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And so my friends, I

leave you to your day.

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I have.

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About like five pages of things

that I had planned to speak about.

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I have them.

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Yeah, I, this is a fun topic that I wanna

get to next week, but I didn't wanna

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make it something that I didn't feel

in my heart, and that's why I'm just

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going to close out with a quick prayer

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Heavenly Father, thank

you so much for this life.

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God, thank you for your blessings,

and thank you for the borrowed

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breath that we are breathing

in and out in this very moment.

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God, God, I pray that anyone

who is listening to this, I pray

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that they have an amazing day.

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I pray only good things for them.

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and I pray that they are a

blessing to everyone around them.

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God, if there is anyone in this

very moment that is listening,

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who is at all struggling.

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With their faith who is at all

questioning or having any doubts

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at all of whether you are there.

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I pray that they receive

some sort of sign.

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I just pray that you make yourself

as loud as possible for them, as

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loud as you want us to be for you.

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I pray that you are as loud for them in

that moment so that they know that you

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are there because you are their God.

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You are always there.

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Lord, we wouldn't be here

if it wasn't for you.

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And so, God, I just pray that our hearts

are on fire for you and that we continue

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to seek you, that we continue to want

you more than we want anything else.

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I pray that you continue to want me

to be in your word instead of taking

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time for things that don't matter.

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God, I pray that the things of

the world is not what we seek

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first, but we seek you, Lord.

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thank you, Jesus for everything, for

absolutely everything that we have.

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Father, it's in your

mighty name that we pray.

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Amen.

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Thank you for listening, my

friends, I love you all so much.

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Thank you for sticking around,

for being here with me.

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I pray that you guys have a safe

and amazing and blessed week.

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See you guys in the next episode.

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Take care.