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Devotional podcast. Now, here's Pamela to get you fired up for all God has available for you today.

Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life. Happy Friday, my friends. We have made it.

We have a beautiful weekend of life just ahead. And I'm excited to be here with you this morning to help you get Friday started.

On Fridays, we love to do a little unscripted Bible study time together. If you have your Bible, grab it. And I'm going to be

going over three different stories in our Bible today that all tell us the same lesson. And maybe

it's a lesson you've missed as you read. A couple of these are super familiar stories. So the title of today's episode of the Big Life

Devotional podcast, if you're taking notes, is you can't stay here. And ever since I wrote that

in my Bible this morning, you can't stay here. I've been singing the song, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. I can't stay here. I've been singing the song. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.

I can't stop singing it. And now you're singing it. And I'm so sorry about that. You can't stay here.

The truth is change requires change.

The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same things and expect to receive different results.

Like if you're going to have change in your life, something has to change.

And maybe you've been asking God to change something in your life.

You desperately want for something to change. You want him to heal you or you want him to heal a situation. You want him to come in and bring change. But what if the change that you seek requires change of you?

Will you be willing to change? Will you be willing to go? Because you can't stay here.

If you're going to change, you cannot stay here.

We're going to start with a story that I think we've even just recently studied together

because I think the highlights in my Bible are fresh on this story.

John Chapter 5, it's a pretty popular story where Jesus heals a lame man. It's at the very beginning of John, chapter 5. It's a pretty popular story where Jesus heals a lame man. It's at the very

beginning of John chapter 5. It says, inside the city near the sheep gate was the pool of Bethesda

with five covered porches. Crowds of sick people, blind, lame, or paralyzed, lay on the porches. Crowds of sick people, blind, lame, or paralyzed lay on the porches. One of the men

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