Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host Chris Emerson. It is my great pleasure today to announce to you a new and additional sponsor for our program.

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Hey, welcome. I'm really glad you are here today, especially if you saw the title and decided to wade

in anyway.

I'm really appreciative of that.

As it indicates, today's content will invite you to look at the more challenging and

maybe even unwelcome events and circumstances and maybe even people in your life and to put faith in the good that God is

doing. I hesitate to say see the good God is doing because you may not be able to see it, not for a

long time or maybe not even in your lifetime or in the physical realm. But the concept that God is putting you through hard and asking

you to embrace that hard because of some result that demands it, that can lead to significant

shifts in your attitude, which will dictate better behavior and end up bringing those great

results that God intended all along. I guess what I'm saying

is hard has two possible outcomes. On the one hand, if I resent it, if I try to avoid it at all

costs, if I have a bad attitude about it, I basically guarantee that hard will equal bad.

But if I can at least appreciate what is possible through it and maybe even

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