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When was the last time you moved
through your day without feeling

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like you were behind? 
Not rushing to the next 

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appointment, not glancing at the
clock, wondering how in the 

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world you're going to squeeze it
all in, Not mentally juggling 

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what you still need to do. 
If you're like most women that I

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talk to, you probably can't 
remember. 

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Life feels like 1 long string of
hurry, and even in those quiet 

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moments, your mind is still 
racing. 

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I get it. 
I live there too. 

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You know, there was a season 
where I or hurry like a badge of

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honor. 
I felt like it was proof that I 

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was being productive. 
I was driven, I was on a 

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mission. 
But the truth was hurry was 

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draining the life out of me. 
And it wasn't really about a 

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full schedule for me. 
It was more about a restless 

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soul. 
And here's what I've learned. 

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You can't live in a hurried soul
and live fully in the Kingdom of

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God at the same time. 1 is 
always going to crowd out the 

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other. 
So that's why today I want to 

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slow down with you. 
I want to talk about what hurry 

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does to us and not just our 
bodies, but to our minds, our 

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spirits and our leadership. 
And more importantly, how we can

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begin to walk at the pace of 
Jesus, who was never in a rush, 

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but always purposeful, always 
present, and always study. 

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Hey friend, welcome to the Free 
to Lead podcast, The place where

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we go deep and uncover what's 
really holding us back from 

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walking confidently in our call 
and our identity in Christ. 

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I'm your host Catherine May, a 
transformational life coach on a

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mission to help growth minded, 
high achieving women just like 

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you to break free and lead from 
a place of peace, clarity and 

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freedom. 
I know what it's like to keep 

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striving, to keep showing up, to
keep doing more, all while 

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wondering if it is ever going to
feel like enough. 

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If you're not alone in that. 
This is the space where we get 

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honest about those struggles, 
invite God into the mess, and 

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discover practical ways to live 
with more peace, joy, and 

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purpose. 
Together we'll tackle the lies, 

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the limiting beliefs, and the 
habits that keep you stuck so 

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that you can lead with true 
freedom and confidence in 

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Christ. 
So take a deep breath, settle 

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in, and let's dive into today's 
conversation. 

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Hurry exhausts the soul. 
Hurry is more than just being 

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busy. 
Busyness is really more about 

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your calendar, and hurry is more
about your heart. 

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And when your heart is hurried, 
you live in this constant state 

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of exhaustion, not just 
physically, but emotionally and 

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even spiritually too. 
You know, Matthew 1128 says, 

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come to me, all who are weary 
and burdened, and I will give 

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you rest. 
That's Jesus saying that to us. 

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But here's the catch. 
You can't come to Jesus if 

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you're sprinting right past him.
Like I got to go, I got to go, 

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I'll be right there, but I got 
to go right now, right? 

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True rest requires slowing down 
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rest. 
And I know it's difficult. 

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Paul knew it was difficult when 
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the rest. 
That was the only time you saw 

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Paul talk about being laborious 
in anything was when he was 

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laboring to enter into the rest.
So it's not just you, it's not 

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just me. 
This is a humanity problem, but 

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especially as women who like to 
try to carry the burdens of all 

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the things on our own and we 
forget that we were never meant 

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to carry those. 
And one thing that's helped me 

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is starting my day with pause. 
Before I grab my phone, before I

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open an e-mail, before I start 
thinking about what everybody 

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else needs from me, I just take 
one or two minutes, sit with the

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Lord. 
I mean, really, it doesn't take 

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that long. 
And sometimes it's just a simple

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prayer. 
I can just simply say, Lord, I 

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release everyone and everything 
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And that could be my pause. 
That took, what, all of five 

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seconds? 
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continued habit of trying to 
pick up things that don't belong

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to me that I was never meant to 
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And they don't need to attach 
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the day so that I can not carry 
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So you could just say something 
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Lord, I release everyone and 
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And I did that even last night. 
I was carrying such a heavy 

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burden. 
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It was heaped on me. 
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extremely exhausted, feeling 
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really felt physically as though
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the weight of what I was 
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And I just kept repeating all 
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while I was in the shower 
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I can hear my own thoughts. 
I would say it, Lord, I release 

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everyone and everything to you. 
Jesus, I release this to you. 

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Jesus, I release it to you over 
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And I did it again even as I was
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busied mind. 
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So just saying something as 
simple as I release everyone and

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everything to you, Lord, is a 
great way to give those burdens 

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over to Him. 
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that or say things like God, I 
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It's not mine, it's yours. 
And I know that you're walking 

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with me through this gift of 
this day and this time that I 

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get to breathe. 
So other times it's really just 

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about taking a deep breath and 
maybe whispering your favorite 

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scripture underneath your 
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It doesn't have to be dramatic. 
It's definitely not needed to be

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polished. 
Just say it and it shifts the 

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posture of your whole day. 
You know, also hurry pushes us 

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ahead of God. 
Here's what I've noticed in my 

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own life. 
When I'm in a hurry, I stop 

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asking God what he thinks and I 
just go about doing what I think

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I need to do. 
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I rush into commitments. 
I end up carrying weight that he

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never asked me to carry because 
I didn't pause, because I didn't

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stop and I just ran ahead of 
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So hurry pushes us ahead of God 
when we're only meant to walk 

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beside him. 
We are meant to partner with 

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God. 
Jesus modeled this perfectly for

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us. 
Even with all the crowds that 

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followed him, even with the 
urgent needs that were all 

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around Him, people pressing in 
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pull from Him, He moved at the 
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He was never reactive. 
We don't get to see Jesus being 

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reactive. 
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That's a big difference. 
Think about what it's like to be

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reactive. 
We're always reacting to 

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something that's happened. 
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Think about the word react in 
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What does it mean to react? 
In my head, it's, let's think 

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about pushing that big red 
button that blows up an entire 

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cavern. 
That is the reactor button. 

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It's going to react in a bomb of
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I just realized years and years 
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reactor button. 
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I wanted to be somebody who 
thoughtfully responded as often 

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as I could. 
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Heck to the no. 
But I did my best not to react 

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to every situation, but to 
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And responding is more peaceful 
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Really even think about those 
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How do they sound when you say 
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React, respond 1 sounds so much 
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So before you step into the next
thing on your plate today, try 

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just saying the simple prayer, 
Lord, I'm walking with you in 

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this. 
We're together and that pause, 

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even for 10 seconds, reminding 
yourself, your soul, your 

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spirit, that you are with Him 
can save you months of striving 

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in the wrong direction. 
You know, Hurry also chokes out 

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our prayer and His presence. 
This one really hit me hard when

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I noticed it. 
Hurry is the death of prayer. 

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When your mind is racing, your 
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When you can't rest, you can't 
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Have you ever sat down to try 
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And I say try because you are 
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because I think about Mr. Miyagi
when he says there is no try, 

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only do when you're sitting down
in the presence of the Lord to 

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pray and you can't quiet your 
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That is choking out your ability
to pray when your mind is racing

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thinking of all the thoughts. 
And I go back to the scripture. 

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It's one of my favorite 
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It's Philippians 4-6 and seven. 
And there's a command attached 

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to a promise. 
I talk about this often. 

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I think about this often. 
I meditate on the scripture 

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often because I need it. 
I am not at a place of arrived 

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in my life. 
This is a constant daily battle 

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for me to not be hurried, to not
overwhelm on my schedule in my 

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mind, to not be thinking racing 
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But when you sit down to pray 
and your mind is racing, you 

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can't focus on the Lord at all. 
All you're focused on is your 

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grocery list and what you need 
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maybe, or what your boss is 
requiring of you, or so on and 

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so on, right? 
We just can keep going with all 

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the things that we know we need 
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And then oftentimes we think, 
well, I don't have time to pray 

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because I got all this stuff to 
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I got to hurry up and that 
steals our intimacy and our time

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with God. 
If we were to take that 5-10 

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minutes, even just a couple, not
even 5, just two, and invest 

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those minutes, invest that time 
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you'll find that you'll get so 
much more done at such a 

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peaceful rate. 
So back to the scripture that I 

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was going to say, though I want 
to, I want to say this scripture

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to you because it's very 
important to think about this 

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command and this promise in 
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So Philippians 4-6 and seven, it
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The first part of the command, 
which I think is very 

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interesting in the day and age 
in which we live, that the 

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majority of us are exceptionally
anxious about one thing or 

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another, anxious, worried. 
You can use those 

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interchangeably. 
But it says do not be anxious 

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for anything. 
But in everything, through 

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prayer and supplication, make 
your requests known. 

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OK, so with Thanksgiving, make 
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That's the command. 
Don't worry about anything but 

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come to God, Ask Him what you 
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Now here's the promise and the 
peace of God, which surpasses 

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all your understanding, will 
guard your heart and your mind 

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in Christ Jesus. 
Now, why do you think that we 

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were given a command with that 
beautiful promise attached to it

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that tells us we don't have to 
worry about these things, not 

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even a suggestion, a command. 
Be anxious for nothing. 

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He's not saying. 
Well, you know, if you would be 

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anxious for nothing, No, he's 
not asking you to be anxious for

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nothing. 
He's telling you and I to do 

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that. 
And it's definitely a lot more 

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difficult when we have been 
conditioned to hurry to jump, to

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be reactive, to always think 
about what I should be doing and

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how I need to be doing it. 
And if it is to be, it's U to me

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an I must, must, must, right? 
And it's like, no, there's an 

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invitation and the invitation 
has come to me. 

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And bring all your requests and 
bring your gratitude because 

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gratitude and anxiety cannot Co 
inhabit your brain at the same 

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time. 
It's been proven over and over 

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and over in the science and 
neurological science world that 

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we cannot have an anxious 
thought and a grateful thought 

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cohabiting in our brain at the 
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So it's very interesting. 
God already knew what science 

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proves over and over again. 
The Bible people is always 

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saying what science is proving 
to be true and acting like this 

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is some big new thing, like it's
been it's actually been 

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discovered. 
God said so a long time ago. 

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It's just a matter of us 
learning to operate in that and 

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break off whatever it is that's 
keeping us bound up in those 

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cycles, habits and patterns. 
And I love the reminder, the 

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promise at the end that says 
that the peace of God, which 

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surpasses all your 
understanding, which means 

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you're still walking through the
fire, you still got crazy stuff 

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going on all around you and 
you're still dealing with it, 

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but you're walking at such a 
level of peace that even you 

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can't explain it. 
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what, why are you OK right now? 
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peace. 
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It surpasses all your 
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your heart and your mind. 
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scripture with the Holy Spirit 
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that mean? 
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he picked the heart and the mind
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on in our mind effects our 
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everywhere, we are affecting our
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heart emotionally. 
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can look at our our organ, We 
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of it, the part we don't see. 
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scripture is saying both it's 
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And so when we think about that 
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physical body, it's like a 
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It's like a prescription for 
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healing your heart. 
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disarray, think about a storm 
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that he calms the seas, just 
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At one point Jesus stood up and 
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He rebuked them, told them to be
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Can all the noise stop throwing 
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But God showed me this beautiful
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looks like in the midst of such 
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heartache and things that are so
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unimaginable. 
He showed me this hurricane 

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coming on shore and I was on the
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I was right there in the sand 
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storm. 
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there on the shore. 
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piece. 
This is the piece that I give to

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you. 
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see is the storm. 
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release. 
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And then it was like the eye of 
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over the right where I was 
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shore. 
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I could see the blueness in the 
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beautiful. 
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So the storm was going on around
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But when I am in the peace that 
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in the eye of the storm, I am in
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wall is not going to affect me. 
So I hope that that helps you to

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really think about taking the 
time to be still so that you can

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spend that time in prayer and in
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Because Jesus was not in a 
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He never modeled hurry for us. 
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The Son of God, with only three 
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the greatest mission on earth, 
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He still took time to sit with 
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He modeled that for us. 
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He didn't fill his schedule to 
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he only had three years and he 
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He still stopped to noticed 
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He did he, he stopped, he 
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truth, he he noticed people, but
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He still went away to a quiet 
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If we're always so hurried, 
trying to get to the next, to 

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the next, to the next, rush, 
rush, rush, we are not being 

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filled. 
This is what true self-care 

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looks like. 
Because I know you've probably 

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heard this before. 
I know I've said it over and 

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over again too. 
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empty cup. 
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are not spending time allowing 
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Jesus knew that He had to be 
filled in order to pour out even

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a drop. 
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And that is why I purposed to 
say I need your healing in this 

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area because I'm always feeling 
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I'm always feeling like I got to
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thing, and I got to hurry up and
finish the thing I'm doing right

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now so that I can get to it. 
So when I really studied Jesus's

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demeanor about his peaceful 
ways, even though he was so busy

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and he did so many things that 
challenged me because if he 

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wasn't rushed, why should I be? 
So here's a small practice 

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that's been really powerful for 
me and you might enjoy 

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implementing this in your life 
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Take 5 minutes of silence and it
is going to feel like an 

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eternity. 
I want to preface that before 

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you jump into the rest of it. 
When you sit down for 5 minutes 

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of silence, no phone around you,
no music on no TV, nothing. 5 

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minutes of silence wherever you 
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even if it's just in your car 
and you throw your phone in the 

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back seat so that it really is a
struggle bus for you to to reach

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for it. 
You can set your timer, even say

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like, hey Siri, set a 5 minute 
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I don't want to say that too 
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But that way you know, you're 
not like wanting to check the 

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phone for the time, but you 
don't have an agenda, you don't 

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have any words, you don't have 
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Your list is nothing. 
You're just sitting with Jesus. 

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At first, like I said, it's 
going to feel super 

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uncomfortable. 
Your brains going to want to 

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fill that space. 
But if you stick with it, if you

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make it a practice, that 
stillness will become the most 

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grounding part of your entire 
day, you're going to begin to 

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look forward to it. 
So, friend, hurry is not the way

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of the Kingdom, it's not the way
of peace, and it's not the way 

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that you were meant to live. 
You were created to lead from a 

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place of presence, not pressure,
and to move with clarity, not 

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chaos, to walk in freedom, not 
exhaustion. 

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So if you feel like hurry's 
taken over your life and you 

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don't know how to slow it down, 
I want to invite you into a 

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breakthrough session with me. 
It's a safe space to just pause,

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to breathe, to identify the 
patterns that are keeping you 

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running on empty. 
And together we'll create a path

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forward so that you can lead 
whole, healed and free, not just

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for yourself, but for the people
that God's called you to serve. 

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You can book your session right 
now at my site. 

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And while you're there, you're 
going to find other resources 

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that are going to help you on 
your journey. 

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Just head to catherinemay.com. 
I'll put the link in the show 

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notes. 
So take a deep breath right now.

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Let your shoulders drop, release
the tension in your forehead, 

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and remember, Jesus isn't in a 
hurry and you don't have to be 

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either. 
So let's walk with him. 

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Steady and free, friend. 
Thank you so much for being here

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today. 
If you love today's episode, if 

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today's episode spoke straight 
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next one.