Mindset MasterClass Session 6: God Has Given Me Everything I Need For The Season I'm In.

I welcome you now to our final session of our do the new you mindset masterclass. That is a mouthful. Brendon Burchard.

We came up with a good do.

The new you mindset masterclass. Say it three times real fast and you'll all of a sudden be a brand new creation. In all seriousness, it's been an amazing privilege for me to sit with my friend Brendan Burchard, who by now, hopefully, you know, because you've watched each session, is a brilliant mind, a compassionate soul. He loves God. He is excited about helping people. But more than that, he's my friend, and I'm so thankful that we got to share this. You know, you sent me a picture recently and you said, I think I have a pastor's heart. You know, when I see people and I'm like, well, of course you do what you do through personal development. And what I'm doing, opening God's word, we're trying to get people to see who God made them to be. And then if we can just give you a nudge a step, like sometimes it doesn't have to be this amazing framework that changes everything. It can be, oh, and the lights come on. It can be an aha that goes, wait, I thought that was a bad thing. That's okay. Sometimes it's just realizing you are completely normal to struggle with that. And one of the things I want to normalize for you in this masterclass format that we can't always dig down when we're preaching on a Sunday or doing a seminar, but hopefully like this, you can really get it, is that this is an ongoing commitment. Do the new you. I always heard, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old is gone, the new has come. 2nd Corinthians 5:17. And thought, well, that's awesome. You know, I'm a new creation. So now everything's new. Well, what about these habits? You know, what about these memories? What about these tendencies? What about this temper? I didn't get a new temperament. What's going on, Lord? Can I get my new? And a lot of this is about our practice. A lot of this is about our commitment to routines that will reinforce who God says we are. So, you know, a lot of the things to do, especially if you grew up in church, you should be in a community of faith. You should be sharing with other people. You know, people who maybe they don't know the Bible any better than you, but they can walk with you. You should have mentors in your life who do know things you don't know. You should have people that you're helping. All of these things being so important, reading the scripture, getting on a Bible reading plan, all of the things that we already know. But I don't want you to think that the better you is something out there somewhere that you have to memorize entire books of the Bible or they might not let you into heaven, or you have to get rid of everything destructive in your life, or you don't have any right to pray, or that you can't be used by God in your business, that you can't be used by God in your family, that you can't be used by God in your school until you've gotten past all your hurdles. So this final mindset that we're going to go through speaks to exactly that. Here's how it goes. You ready? Repeat after me. You know, by now I expect you to participate, even though I cannot hold you accountable on the video. But let's try it. Repeat after me. God has given me everything I need for the season I'm in. This is where I want to get you to really embrace your now. Even if the now you have right now is not the now you want to be in a year down the road. I always used to do teachings with our interns at the church. Brendan and I would open it up to question and answer, and there was always something along the lines of, you know, I feel God called me to be an amazing songwriter. I feel God has called me to make movies. Or I feel God has called me. So it's a dream, which I respect because God called me to be a pastor when I was 16, right? And I felt it and I sensed it and I glimpsed it and I didn't know how it was going to happen. But here I am in front of these interns and they're going, what do you do when God gave you a dream? And I landed on this saying that I used to tell him, and it was kind of a testimony of my own life. I said everything that God unlocked in my life that was next was a result of being fully committed to my now. In other words, all of this vision about the future. Did you ever think that you would pastor a church that would have this impact on the world or write books or anything? In a sense, yes. I had dreams and I had hopes and I wanted to be used by God. But it was showing up to, you know, teach The Bible to 20 kids, right, at Santee Circle Baptist Mission. It wasn't even a chartered church yet. It was Santee Circle Baptist Mission. And it was the kids that were brought in on the van from neighborhoods where, you know, they didn't have any parents dropping them off at church. So we went to get them and their attention spans were horrible. And they didn't want to be there for the Bible. They just want to come get the food and play kickball. Yeah, that's where it started.

You had a direction, not a fully formed perfect dream.

And don't you think people are over obsessed with the dream and sometimes unwilling to just follow the direction that they have for this day?

Yeah, they want to. When we get in trouble, we want a perfect picture. Say, I won't begin until I have a perfect picture. I won't begin until I have the perfect skill. I won't begin until I have the perfect plan. And I think so much of what I learned from reading the Bible is that often and he didn't describe the full on thing to them. He's kind of like, I need you to go over here and I need you to go over there. And now you go in strength and you go over here. But it wasn't like, here's everything that's gonna happen when you get there. It's not like he teased everyone. He's like, I want you to go over there and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna have you hang out for 40 years. It was more of like, I need you to go in this direction. And I think that a lot of people find real strength in their life when they say, oh, I need to do that. I need to move in that direction, Move in that direction with faith and then trust. And I also think that thing I get from reading the Bible related this chapter is that he gave direction, but he also gave struggle. Yeah, there was never like you just glided into the promised land. It was just like, how many times does Saul have to try to kill David before you realize, oh, he didn't just say you're king. It's like you realize there's this journey and that struggle is a part of it. And a lot of maturity in life happens when suddenly you stop bemoaning the struggle and hating the struggle and getting mad at the struggle. And you start to realize that the struggle is absolutely part of it for your character development, for your relation with God, for your ability to cope and do better in the next struggle. And so I always tell people in high performance, I'm like, don't be surprised at the struggle. I mean, working with a fighter, I'm like, don't be surprised you just got punched in the face. Don't be surprised. You're in round four and your legs are given out. Don't be surprised about the inevitable. And the inevitable is that there will be struggle. And there is inevitable. You'll be backed. You'll be backed. Don't be surprised.

You'll be backed.

Don't be surprised. It'll be a struggle. And that's why I love this chapter, because you went into this idea of, like, help me fail.

Yeah.

And when you went in there, I was like, okay, you like that one? This is turning on.

So if you read it, let me give you a little bit more color. Okay. I hope you've read the book, and if not, I hope you get the book. So. So that you can just get this back in your heart over and over again. Because some of my lessons that come to me don't come when I'm just sitting down, reading the Bible or studying a commentary. It'll be something I'll hear somebody say, and I'll go, ugh. Oh, that's kind of. That's kind of interesting. This guy comes over to lift weights with me last year, and he brings his spotter with him. Now, this guy's a professional bodybuilder. But I know that the moment that stood out to me was when he was maybe on his, like, 12th or 13th rep on a shoulder press, and he said to his spotter, three words. Help me fail. Now he's, like, at the end of his rep, what they call, like, the effective rep. I don't know all the terminology, but, you know, it's always the rep that you can barely do that produces the growth. Like, if you want to build strength and muscle, the first 10 reps that you did easily aren't building any muscle. It's the one that you thought you couldn't do. That's where the growth starts. So he gets to that point, he does a really hard rep, and then he goes to do another one, and he tells his spotter, help me fail. I thought, that's interesting. If somebody's spotting me, I say, give me a spot. Or I might say, help me, or I need a little help. But he was so specific, helped me fail that I realized he was saying, naturally, I understand that growth happens at the point of failure, not before. In order for my muscle to grow, I have to fail with good form. Now, that's important. Like, I'm not a workout expert, but don't be breaking your back trying to just fail. You can fail and fall on the floor and knock your teeth out if you don't know what you're doing. That's why he had a spotter. He's saying, I need to push through what I think I can do, and I need to get through that, but I can't cheat it or I'll hurt something else. So I need you to help me through this rep that I don't think I can do, make sure that I'm going to be okay at the end of it, because that's how my muscles will adapt and I'll get stronger for the next one. So I use that for an analogy where in my life, I'm coming up every day. I mean, every day I'm coming up on a mood, an attitude, a fear, a failure, a disappointment, an interaction. Let's keep going. All the things that we all run up on where it feels like I completely blew it, or there that is again, or I'm still weak. I thought I'd gotten over that. I thought I was through that. I thought I was better than that. What was a big shift for me in my mindset was not only the first mindset. I'm not stuck unless I stop, like, push through it. But to know that that's where God does the most. Growing in me is the moments where I actually feel like I didn't do it that well. I didn't do it that good. I preached so many sermons where I got off the stage and thought, God, you showed it to me. It was so beautiful. But I didn't get it to them like you showed it to me. Then I might hear from somebody four months later, hey, you remember that sermon you preached? I'll go, yeah, I remember it. It was a mess. And they'll go, man, that. That saved my marriage. And I realized that at the moment that I was feeling the worst about it, God was doing the most in the pandemic, we had nobody in the room. And there's this auditorium with thousands of seats, and there were five people. There's Holly and a few staff and the camera people. And I'm preaching. And I walked off stage, and I felt so weird. Like, I'm used to preaching to a lot of people. And I get off the stage, and somebody meets me backstage and says, how does it feel to preach to the biggest crowd you ever preached to? I'm like, that's not funny, man. It's really awkward. I'm up there preaching to nobody. And they said, no, no. There were more people watching online today. Wow. Than any crowd that you've ever preached to all in just that service. You just preached to the most people you ever preached to. And it was when I was seeing the least that I was ministering the most. Wow. And I want to get this in your heart as we close this mindset masterclass, not as we close this process. Because it is a daily decision that you have to make. Which me will I be? Which you will you do? You're not done choosing. It's not a one time event. I want to give you this last little nugget for the seasons where you're struggling. It may not even just be one rep. It may not even be just one day. It may not even be just one month. You may go through long stretches of time. Yeah. With a little reprieve. But you might say this is mostly a struggle. The stage of life my kids are at right now, this business challenge relative to my industry, this rhythm of my life that feels completely unsustainable. And while I don't always think that we should seek out more struggle, I think we have to know that when we struggle, God gives strength. If you can know that in those moments and say to God that the greatest three word prayer that I never heard, help me fail. I don't ask God to help me fail. I want him to help me win, Help me succeed, Help me crush, help me kill, help me destroy. I want to win.

You're saying, help me stretch, help me grow for those who are an aversion to fail. But I think it is important that.

Well, I chose the language help me fail because it's inevitable that you are going to feel like you're failing, but maybe you're not. That's what I think is so interesting about you being a success coach, is that some people go, well, a success coach, Is that really scriptural to success? Well, first of all, God told Joshua, I'll give you good success. The kind of success that God gives a good success where you make a difference for him and you don't rip your life apart. I mean, you wrote a whole book called High Performance Habits about people who are not just succeeding over here and then making a mess of their relationships or destroying their health. God wants to bring all these things to integration in our life. But I think just as important as what's our definition of success? Is the question, what's your definition of failure? Who said it failed?

Right.

We talked in an earlier masterclass about disappointment. And disappointment is relative to time. And when you remove the element of time, you don't have to be disappointed. Because it's going to happen, and it's in God's hands.

Yeah.

So what do you walk people through when they are experiencing what they perceive to be failure? But, you know, as a coach, this is a growth moment. This is a growth season. Yeah.

I think the first part is always, as I said earlier, just remove the surprise from people. It's like they're so shocked that they had a bad performance. I was like, you've been on tour for three years. You didn't think one of them you were gonna suck, or you just remove, like, the struggle and the failure. It is going to be there, and it is a personal definition. You thought you failed, but 15,000 people chanted, you thought you failed, but you weren't arrested the next day. You thought. I mean, we have these cataclysmic things about failure, and we always realize failure is a personal definition. So first, I want to say, why were you surprised? Second, what is your definition? Tell me, what does that mean that you failed? And what's interesting, when people use the terminology of failure, they drop into the fixed mindset right away because they believe that the failure stopped something. I failed. And it's just like this defined event, and their progress stopped and their growth will stop. And so their definition of failure often comes with, like, a stop sign. And I have to say, oh, there's no stop sign. That was an incident in life. Tomorrow there's gonna be 40 other incidents. That was one struggle. You're gonna have another thousand. So there was no stop sign. It was something that occurred, but it occurred in the stream of life. And now you're downstream of that difficulty, and now you're gonna face another boulder that's similar. Okay, how are you gonna navigate this one? Cause that's what that gave you. That difficulty gave you navigation instructions. It wasn't a failure. It was a navigation instruction manual. It was like, hey, okay, you hit this thing. It didn't go right. That boulder is going to appear in the stream again probably a lot of times until you learn.

Right.

So now, you know the boulder's coming up. Well, let me skill up. Let me learn how to navigate that. Let me learn how to use my oar and snap my hip in the kayak to pop around that boulder. Yeah, Let me skill up, so next time I face it, I'm a little stronger.

Yeah.

I'm a little smarter. I'm a little more wise. And so that's a developmental standpoint. It doesn't say, I stopped there. It's forever fixed. I'm always Gonna be ruined here. It says that's probably gonna come up again. Let me teach myself. How would the best self deal with it? How would I skill up to deal with it better? It's taking a struggle that's inevitable and it's equipping ourselves for the future. And maybe what came out of that struggle is I'm going to equip myself to be kinder next time. I'm going to equip myself to be more patient. I'm going to equip myself to develop a skill that I can do this or that so that it doesn't feel so harsh or surprising or awful next time. Because that's maturity, is we get better at things like you do as a speaker. Right. My metaphor for that would be I trained myself to speak to a small group and then a slightly bigger group and a slightly bigger group and a slightly. The problem was I was probably level of a thousand people. I still felt like I wanted to throw up before going out there. And I had to say, I need to train myself to be in a good place to handle life's challenges. And that's what I want people to hear is like, the struggles are inevitable. Train yourself to be in a good place, learning from your past lessons and preparing yourself now for the struggle that you're in. Because the season that you're in, which is why I love the chapter title here, it's like the season that you're in, you're equipped, you're emboldened, you got backing. And you have to step in faith and stay in motion and not hit the stop sign.

Step in faith. Because the struggle is not a stop sign. It's a strength builder. Struggle builds strength. So write these two down. Struggle builds strength. Not all struggle.

Some struggle.

You're struggling because you're stubborn. Like you're not supposed to still be struggling with this. You're supposed to apologize. Quit trying to prove you're right. But when the struggle is something that God is taking you through and leading you through, it's going to build strength.

Don't put a stop sign on the struggle.

Don't put a stop sign on the struggle.

Especially when it's bad and you didn't want it. I mean, people I know you minister to people who've their struggle or their challenge in this season, they lost a child. And when you tell them, well, just be strong through it, it sounds so flippant. But sometimes when you say there will be strength, you'll be provided for. But also don't stop there. Don't forget you do have maybe another child, or don't forget that your life doesn't have to stop because they were called. And so I think it's a matter of when our struggles hurt us and there's no growth from them is when we put that stop sign and we think that ended our life, that ended our progress, that ended our reputation. And so when I say, don't put a stop sign on a struggle, it's not trying to say that anyone ever wanted those terrible things that happened to us that are our struggles and problems. It's saying when you have that terrible thing and that awful thing and you can't find the strength. When they hear guys like us say, well, there's strength there, and they're like, I can't find. There's no strength that came from this awful. I lost my dad. There's no strength from that, Brendan. I go, yeah, it doesn't feel like it. And you might be right, but don't stop living because your dad didn't want you to stop living. He doesn't want you to stop living. And so the most important thing when you say that there's a season for everything and that God is with you. There is. Don't put stop signs on the struggle.

Well, I don't preach to the people in my church. In those moments, they preach to me. You know, it becomes a role reversal.

Because I love that.

I have seen amazing faith from people in our church who have gone through the most agonizing situations over and over again. And in those moments, they become the messenger to me. And it's almost like they take the pulpit in their life, and I learn, I become the parishioner. And for some reason, I feel compelled to share this. And I never thought that this masterclass session would go to this place, but I feel like it's supposed to. One of my favorite church members, his name is literally Tom Layman. You know, we have, like, ministers and laymen. He's literally layman. So I always tell him he's my favorite layman. And one night they were at church, and his oldest son died. Died in a car wreck while he sat in church, and his phone was off, and he didn't find out till he left church. And after his son had gone to heaven and after we had done the funeral and everything, I watched him and I wondered, will he still want to pray? Will he still want to come to church? Would I. If I was in church and my son wasn't drunk, my son wasn't doing anything wrong, my son was a good kid. But what he did was he preached a whole life message back to me through his decisions. Because before his son died, his son had wanted to start a fishing club and they loved to fish together. And he never got to do it. And when Riley died, Tom decided going to start the fishing club. But it's not just going to be fishing for fish. It's going to be fishing for men. Like Jesus said, I will make you fishers of men.

It's beautiful.

And man, they started this club called Riley's Catch. And not only have seen 100 kids come to Christ through the club because they actually not just give them these amazing experiences, but they share the gospel with them. But I've told his story to our church with his permission. And it's better than me being up there saying there's strength in the struggle. Right? Like this isn't Pinterest from the pulpit that we're trying to give people today. I've seen it. I've seen that the strength that Tom and Lisa Layman, and we could name a lot more, the strength that they needed for the season that they never would have chosen was there. I don't know how. I don't know how the spotter helped them when they felt like, I probably can't take another breath. And then they did. I don't know if I can put on my face and smile at people today at church when my son is no longer here and we were in church trying to be a good family. But when you see that from my point of view as a pastor, it's what lets me know that what we preach and teach is more than platitudes and cliches. Right? These are the words of God for you. Because when you get into that season, if you're in that season right now, whether it's the loss of someone or whether it's, you know, something within yourself that you lost. You lost your compass, you lost your joy, you lost your direction, you lost your enthusiasm. We're not here to qualify whose loss is deeper. When you're in it, it feels deep. I want you to remember the Bible story. And it's crazy how this session is coming together. I feel like it must be really anointed for somebody to hear because we planned on talking about Peter, who was a fisherman in the Bible. Peter, man, the dude had a lot of strengths, but he was stupid. I mean, he was. He run up on somebody and cut off their ear trying to defend Jesus. And Jesus is like, I am trying to go to the cross. They came here to do what they're supposed to do. Let them pass. Jesus puts the ear back on. He put up with so much out of Peter. But you know what? When Jesus was starting his ministry and he needed a boat to preach from, he looked at Peter's boat and said, I want to use his boat. And Peter's like, cool, you can preach from my boat. You need somewhere to stand. You need somewhere to push out where you can get away from the crowds. And your voice will echo over the water. Sure, use my boat. And that was his first decision. It's like, you can get in my boat now. He had no idea at that point that he was going to go all around the Sea of Galilee and see Jesus heal blind eyes. See Jesus. Cause those who could not speak to utter their first words. See Jesus feed people off of a. Do you have Captain D's or Long John Silver's or any of those little fish restaurants back in Montana? You know, he's multiplying food and he's performing miracles and he's healing people that others wouldn't touch, all because Peter let him in his boat. And I think that's a significant moment. When you say, God, I don't know what's ahead for me, but you can get in the boat with me. You can have my life, my gifts, my skills, and I don't know what my potential is for you. In fact, sometimes I feel like it's not like these other people. But if you're calling me, you're speaking to me, if you gave me this to do, if you put me in this season, this assignment, come on in. And then when Jesus goes to the cross, Peter doesn't do so well. And Jesus told Peter he wasn't going to do so well. He said, peter, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. And Peter's probably thinking you told him he couldn't, right? Like he's going to tempt you and test you. But Jesus said, yeah, you're going to deny that you know me. You're going to have a moment of failure. You're going to fail. But Simon, I prayed for you. Because his name was Simon before it was Peter. Jesus changed his name like he does for all of us. He gives you a new nature. And he said, I prayed for you, that when you fail, that your faith would not fail. And that when you return, you'll strengthen your brothers. So now fast forward. Jesus has died on the cross. He's risen from the grave. Peter has seen that Jesus is alive, but he doesn't really know what's next for him. That might be you right now. Like, I just don't know what's next for me. Remember, everything that is next in your life is connected to what you do right now. God has given you everything you need for the season you're in. So Peter says something in the scripture. He goes, I'm going fishing. I've heard preachers say Peter was backsliding. He was going back to his old life and going fishing. No, he needed dinner. He's trying to feed everybody. Jesus being risen from the dead didn't mean that they didn't need nutrition. So he's going back fishing, doing what he knows to do. And I got to wonder, Brendan, also, was he going back to the last place where he knew that God could use him?

That's where he'd connected before.

Was he going back to that same Sea of Galilee, that area called Capernaum, where he had dropped Jesus off to teach a little bit and heal a little bit and multiply those bread and loaves. Was he running from Jesus or was he looking for Jesus? I remember when he called me on the lake. I remember when he got in my boat. I remember when he walked toward me on the water. You have to think the memories are going through his mind. And maybe if I just get back out here and I fish. Suddenly, at the moment of his failure, after he fished all night and caught nothing, which is exactly what happened the first time Jesus used his boat. He's like full circle with this failure. Because we never stop going through moments and nights and situations and relationships and opportunities and ventures where it doesn't work out like we wanted it to. But the Bible says that a voice called out saying, friends, do you have any fish? Peter recognized something, that's Jesus. And he jumped in that water and swam toward Jesus because he was impulsive. He could have stayed in the boat, probably got there quicker, but he was so excited to have another chance. And he realized the truth that I want to leave you with as we close out this session together. He realized in that moment that God brought me through that season of my failure. And he is bringing me in to a season of even greater effectiveness. Because remember, Peter started out as a fisherman, but Jesus called him to feed his sheep. He turned him from a fisherman, a fisher of men, into a shepherd. And he went on to influence the church like few people in history. All that from letting Jesus in his boat, all that on the other side of his embarrassment, on the other side of his betrayal. And I just want you to get to the other side. I know this session isn't quite as practical, and I know we haven't given five steps for moving through failure, and we're kind of moving in the realm of images right now, but I just feel like this is where we want to leave this message. In your heart is that God has already chosen you. With your unique abilities, with your unique background, with your small town or big city self, with your tall self, short self, with your loud self, quiet self, with your introverted, extroverted self. God chose you. The question is, will you choose you? Will you choose the you that God knew before you were ever born, the you that is capable of making a difference, the you that is capable of moving through generational patterns that held your mom back and your dad back? I think that is available to you right now, in this moment and in every moment. This is the decision knowing that God chose me, that I don't need to be somebody else, that if I need to have it, God will bring it. That if I need to be good at it, I can grow into it. That God will send me people that I need to teach me what I need to know. People to help, that I'm supposed to help. People to link up with who are strong where I'm weak. God will supply all, all my needs according to his glorious riches in Christ. And I'm sorry I'm preaching, Brendan, but this is my life message. This is what I believe for each and every one of you. That there is a shepherd in you. There is a next level of what God wants to do through your life. And it may not look like more followers on Instagram, or it may. It may not look like starting 17 companies, or it may. But I know one thing. I know that God chose you for something you are the perfect person for. If you can anchor that belief, no matter what stormy seas you're tossed on, no matter what failure seasons you go through, no matter what mistakes you have to go back and correct. I promise you this much. You will have the grace you need. You will have the gift you need. It's in you right now. You're not on the treadmill chasing future you. Peter was Peter while he was still calling himself Simon. Peter was a shepherd while he was still catching fish. Peter was a fisher of men even when his nets were empty. Peter was a preacher even when he was cursing and denying Christ. It's in you right now. God has given me everything I need for the season I'm in. So expect growth. Expect stages. Expect there to be some Times where the seed is underground and you don't see anything happening, that's okay. God is often doing the most when we see the least. Expect harvest, expect blessings, expect things to be grateful for. Expect a testimony from your experience from these scriptures getting in your heart. Expect for the truth to take root and bear fruit in your life. But while you're waiting for it, just believe I'm planted in the soil of God's purpose for me and nothing can pluck me out of his hand. I can't think of a better message to leave you with. I can't think of a better truth to root your life in as you await your future. I'm believing that the new you is the true you. The you you get a glimpse of every once in a while. I believe God is going to give you more of those experiences where you're generous. More of those experiences where you're open. More of those experiences where you're able to step in and bring in somebody who's lonely. More of those experiences where you connect with him through his Word and you see something that makes you want to scream like a little kid, and you go, wow, thank you for that, Lord. More of those days where you look around at your life and say, God has been good to me. May the God who has given you glimpses ground you in this reality. And as we end this masterclass together, I not only want to thank my friend Brendan for sharing this time, it's a huge deal that you would do this.

I loved every minute.

I wanted to ask you, is there anything that you want to say that we didn't get to cover yet?

I heard you say we didn't give five steps in this session. And all I could amplify in this is you sort of do at the end of the book with this message of Peter and this idea that when you're going through struggle, when you failed, when you face hardship and difficulty, what I learned from this chapter was Peter returned to the source. He went back to the place of the miracles. He went back to the introduction again. He went back to witness and to search again. And I think that's powerful because if you're in a place of struggle, you know, we always think we have to do all these new things. I'm struggling. I gotta. Maybe I need to do ice baths and 50 new morning routines. I heard on this podcast we think we have to do all these new things. And what I've learned from Pastor Stephen, he's saying, no, you have to do the new you. And part of that I really believe is returning to the source, returning to the goodness, Returning to the point where you found your faith, returning to the point where you'll get to resurrect that faith. Returning to the point where you go, oh, there's a good part of me, even I went through all this and it was roundabout and it was difficult and there were struggles and I was bad and I failed or whatever. Return to that good part of you, that new part of you, that old part of you that was also innocent, that part of you that was joyous, that part of you that was doing your good works, that part of you that found faith for the first time. Go back to your faith. Go back to that source. Go back to him. Because when you go back to that work, good things will stem from there and the miracles will stem from there again. So I think just getting back to your faith will be profound. And that's why I love the book. And I appreciate it this time because it's reconnected me with that faith.

Me too. Go back to what you know. The new you New the K N E W U Peter went back to what he knew and God made him new. Go back to what you know. What do you know? You know that I'm not stuck unless I stop. What do you know? You know that Christ is in me. I am enough. What do you know? You know that with God there's always a way and by faith I will find it. What do you know? God is not against me, but he's in it with me, working through me, fighting for me. What do you know? My joy is my job. What do you know? God has given me everything I need for the season I'm in. Welcome to the new you.